welt
/wɛlt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
noun
A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
noun
A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
noun
A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
noun
A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
Example Sentences
- "When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her."
- "[…] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable."
- "She was nearly four feet long, with a large welt on her shell, which was encrusted with ancient-looking barnacles."
- "… round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / …"
- "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, […]"
- "“The neighborhood is officially called Mid-City, but it is often referred to as Crenshaw. The area is wide and bright, a grid of small streets crisscrossed with boulevards and the welt of the I-10 freeway running along its southern edge.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old High German wëralt Middle High German wërlt German Weltbor. English Welt Borrowed from German Welt.