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You can make 14 words from welt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of welt

welt ewlt wlet lwet elwt lewt wetl ewtl wtel twel etwl tewl wlte lwte wtle twle ltwe tlwe eltw letw etlw telw ltew tlew

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word welt. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in welt.

Definitions and meaning of welt

welt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta.

Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve

Derived terms

• welter

Etymology 2

Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

Noun

welt (plural welts)

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.

   Synonyms: wheal, weal
2. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
3. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
   • 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways":

     […] surmounted of another Azure: but in my Judgment, it rather represents a Hem, or Welt of a Belt, or an Edg of Silver, than two Belts one upon another; which the Bend properly signifie […]

4. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
5. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
6. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
7. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, especially one which does not extend all the way around the ends of it (where it touches the edges of the shield) as a fimbriation would.
   • 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways":

     Therefore this may be taken for an Observation, that an edg, or hem, or welt, only runs on the sides of the Ordinary; but the Border invirons, or goeth clear round the same, […]

8. Any other feature resembling a welt (strip).

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Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. To cause to have welts; to beat.
2. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

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Etymology 3

Verb

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
2. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.

Related terms

• wilt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Verb

welt

1. inflection of wellen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Middle English

Noun

welt

1. Alternative form of welthe