weld
Definitions
General English
Construction
- To build up or fasten together, as with cements or solvents.
- To fasten two pieces of metal together by heating them until there is a fusing of material, either with or without a filler metal.
Electronics
Food
- noun the seam along the length of a can that is vulnerable to corrosion
Origin & History of “weld”
Weld is ultimately the same verb as well (as in ‘The tears welled up in his eyes’). this originally meant ‘boil, melt’, but in the 15th century (perhaps under the influence of Swedish välla ‘gush, weld’) it began to be used for ‘fuse metal by heating’. Weld itself presumably arose from the use of the past form welled as a present form.
