Welt vs Welk - What's the difference?
welt | welk |
A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
(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.
A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
(heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i.23:
* Milton
(dialectal) to soak, .
(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
To contract; to shorten.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between welt and welk
is that welt is a raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal while welk is alternative form of lang=en.As verbs the difference between welt and welk
is that welt is to cause to have welts, to beat while welk is of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.welt
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(en noun)welk
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(en verb)- As gentle Shepheard in sweete euentide, / When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west [...].
- The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.
- Now sad winter welked hath the day.