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Welter vs Helter - What's the difference?

welter | helter |

As nouns the difference between welter and helter

is that welter is general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines while helter is an alternative spelling of halter rope, cord, or similar thing that fastens around the neck.

As a verb welter

is to roll; to wallow.

As an adjective welter

is of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.

welter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to roll; to wallow
  • (intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
  • * Latimer
    • When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
  • * Spenser
    • These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
  • * Landor
    • the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
  • To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
  • * Milton
    • the weltering waves
  • * Wordsworth
    • waves that, hardly weltering , die away
  • * Trench
    • through this blindly weltering sea
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
    • Derived terms
    * welter-weight

    Etymology 3

    Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wither; to wilt.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
    English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    helter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (northern England, obsolete)

    • References

    * “ helter]” listed as a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century northern-English spelling variant of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50231007 halter, n.''¹]”, listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989) English obsolete forms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

    (head) (m)