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walt, welt, whelt verb to hit, strike someone or something: ... Jack picked a bit stick up from the shoreside, he beat him and he welted him and he welted him and he beat him and he welted him.; And the farmer would go round whelting the bloody float with a stick trying to get them [the Travellers] to come out. 20-.
‣ walted wean, welted wean a child marked with welts after a beating 20-. etymology: perhaps related to welt n ‘a ridge on the the flesh, especially the mark left by a healed wound; a scar’; attested by JS, BW and DW