slug vs welt

slug

noun
  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

welt

noun
  • A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow. 

  • A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. 

  • In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint. 

  • In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it. 

  • In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed. 

  • A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. 

  • A feature resembling a welt. 

  • A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it. 

verb
  • To cause to have welts; to beat. 

  • To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce. 

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