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welt (n.)
early 15c., a shoemaker's term, perhaps related to Middle English
welten
"to overturn, roll over" (c. 1300), from Old Norse
velta
"to roll" (related to
welter
(v.)). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" is first recorded 1800.
