weld

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 168 words | Copyright

weld2 intr. be joined by heating and hammering XVI; trans. join in this way XVII. var. of WELL2, from XV in this sense; the -d appears to have come from the pt. and pp.

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