Welds vs Wields - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between welds and wields

is that welds is (weld) while wields is (wield).

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(en verb)

(label) To command, rule over; to possess or own.

*, Bk.V, Ch.7:

*:There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.

(label) To control, to guide or manage.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:

*:With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends.

To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.

To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.