a. dial. Also far-, fow-, welter’d. [f. WELT v., a. ON. velta to overturn; the first element is perh. ON. fár harm, mischief, as in fár-veikr very ill.] (See quots.)

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1870.  Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style, viii.

        An’ ’e ligs on ’is back ’i the grip, wi’ noan to lend ’im a shove,
Woorse nor a far-welter’d [footnote, Or fow-welter’d] yowe: fur, Sammy, ’e married fur luvv.

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1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Farwelted, overthrown; said of sheep.

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