welt

1. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).

2. (obsolete, shoemaking) A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).Examples: "Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called."; "Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts."obsolete

1. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.UKarchaicdialectalintransitive

2. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.UKarchaicdialectalintransitive