| • | That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it |
| • | A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down. |
| • | A hem, border, or fringe. |
| • | In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. |
| • | To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve. |
| • | To wilt. |
