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Welded

Weld \Weld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Welded; p. pr. & vb. n. Welding.] [Probably originally the same word as well to spring up, to gush; perhaps from the Scand.; cf. Sw. v["a]lla to weld, uppv["a]lla to boil up, to spring up, Dan. v[ae]lde to gush, G. wellen to weld. See Well to spring.]

  1. To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

    Note: Very few of the metals, besides iron and platinum. are capable of being welded. Horn and tortoise shell possess this useful property.

  2. Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.

    Two women faster welded in one love.
    --Tennyson.

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welded

vb. (en-past of: weld)

Usage examples of "welded".

Before taking up running, Collins suffered from diabetic neuropathy in both feet, a condition that made his feet feel like wood, and his toes like they were all welded together.

He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.

Lemelisk felt his heart sink into his paunchy stomach: a large section of the Darksaber outer framework was indeed assembled wrong, girders welded to incorrect counterparts.

He paused beside a bedstead welded together from a bunch of those pickaninny jockey-boys it had been against the law to have on your lawn in Knoxville.

And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.

At 11 months she presented the opposite problem: Now her rhythms were all too stubbornly synchronized, welded to a particular 24-hour pattern that we happened to find oppressive.

Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.

But though they had been united in purpose from the start for this venture, now they were welded, melded, worked upon as a smith works sword steel to do what must be done.

The Molt sword blade was a sandwich of malleable iron welded to either side of a core of high carbon steel, quick-quenched to a rich blue after forging.

The verdigrised black head and cape of an ancient Molt were mounted on a stake welded to the bow of one of the cars.

A wall of sharp minds, brought to welded purpose, eclipsed the webbed traceries of rocks and plants under a stain of penumbral shadow.

Time-Car, set the Plattnerite jar on the floor, and made to open one of the steel flasks welded to the hull of the vehicle.

Smooth, spheroidal pressure vessels of steel and prestressed concrete loomed one hundred forty-five feet in diameter, and over two hundred feet long, cradled in massive welded frames and interconnected by a maze of heavy-walled pressure lines.

The stasis box was a soft iron cylinder seven feet long, welded to the shells of two radon bombs to give a total length of fourteen feet.

Japhet welded harpoon line into three-strand cables, Nemo and Sarissa toiled by camp lanterns modifying rifle ammunition, Orson and Penny converted the tough hides of freshly slaughtered delphs into a hundred meters of tubing, Orson scrolling the material and holding it for Penny to fuse with the bright needle-fine laser beam.