vbl. sb. Also Sc. and north. 6 wawting, 7 valting, 7–8 walting, 8 ? waiting; 7, 9 waltin, 9 wattin. [f. WELT v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of furnishing with a welt. a. The edging, binding or ornamenting (a garment) with a welt or welts; chiefly concr., an edging, a border, fringe.
1508. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IV. 135. Item, for grathing of foure sadilles … and wawting of thaim with wellus, xlviij s.
1552. in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 119. The garmentes welted aboute with blew & yellow gould tinsell conteyning xxxtl yardes weltinge. Ibid. (1558), Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 23, viii plackardes of the same Maske and the welting and jagginge therof.
1600. Rowlands, Letting Humours Blood, ii. 54. The welting hath him in no chardges stood, Being the ruines of a cast French hood.
1647. Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Club), I. 100. Item for 4 elnes of Tours waltings to his claithes 0 10 0.
1737. Ochtertyre House Booke of Accomps (S.H.S., 1907), 80. For 3/4 of a yeard of cherry waiting [sic: the Glossary gives wating].
1875. Plain Needlework, 16. They can be stitched (like welting) and finished off with strings.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Welting,… a seam; a seaming.
transf. 1894. Blackmore, Perlycross, xxi. A westerly breeze played with the half ripe pods of gorse, and the brown welting of the heather.
b. in techn. senses, esp. in shoemaking.
1795. W. Felton, Carriages (1801), II. Gloss., Welting is the sewing a narrow strip of leather over the corner seams,… which keeps out the wet.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Jan., 6/2. [Shoe trade.] Welting machinery is making progress, and hand labour for welting is being trained.
1893. Eliz. Rosevear, Text-bk. Needlework, etc., 405. Welting or Ribbing is usually knitted at the top of stockings, socks, muffatees, and sometimes throughout a garment.
2. A beating, a thrashing.
1840. Cockton, Val. Vox, xii. Do you want a good welting? ony say, and you shall catch, my dear, the blessedest rope’s-ending you ever had any notion on yet.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, I. 233. She received a sound welting as a girl from her father merely for alluding to the tale.
1887. G. Meredith, Poet. Wks. (1912), 197. He [a dog] bewhimpered his welting, and I Scarce thought it enough for him.
3. attrib., as welting cord; † welting stake, some kind of armorer’s anvil.
1660. in Meyrick, Ant. Armour (1824), III. 128. Welting stakes.
1887. Jamieson, Suppl., Waltin-Cord, Wattin-Cord, cord used in forming welts for seams and hems of gowns.
