welter-weight
adj
Meaning
- A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.
- between lightweight and middleweight
- a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class
Etymology / origin
Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.
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