ppl. a. [f. WELD v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  United by welding.

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1869.  Scientific Opinion, 10 Feb., 270/1. The wire had been drawn from welded palladium.

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1905.  Westm. Gaz., 27 June, 2/1. The immensely expensive welded-iron gun to which Sir W. Armstrong was wedded.

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  b.  transf. and fig.

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1837.  Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar (1844), Ded. 4. The welded mass of haut ton, or low ton.

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1862.  Lytton, Str. Story, xxiii. The welded strength of its sinews was best shown in the lightness and grace of its movements.

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1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, lxxi. Welded lines with clinch Of ending word and word.

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1898.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 1008. The firm, thick, fibrous septum of the welded valve-structures.

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  2.  Welded joint, = welted joint: see WELT v.

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1882.  W. J. Christy, Joints, 197. This variety [of overlapping joint] thus compactly rolled together is otherwise termed a welded joint.

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