Welt vs Whelp - What's the difference?
welt | whelp |
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.
A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
(derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
* Addison
(obsolete) A kind of ship.
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).
(ambitransitive) To give birth.
As nouns the difference between whelp and welt
is that whelp is a young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub while welt is a raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.As verbs the difference between whelp and welt
is that whelp is to give birth while welt is to cause to have welts, to beat.welt
English
Noun
(en noun)whelp
English
Noun
(en noun)- That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
Derived terms
* fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling) * (Newfoundland) (l) * whelpling * wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelpSee also
* Guelf, Guelph * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- The bitch whelped .
- The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.