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wel⋅ter⋅weight

  [wel-ter-weyt]
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–noun
1. a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, esp. a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
2. (in a steeplechase or hurdle race) a weight of 28 pounds (13 kg) that is assigned to a horse in addition to the poundage assigned based on the age of the horse.
3. a rider of steeplechase or hurdle-race horses who, though acting as a jockey, is of comparatively average weight and not small or lightweight as a professional jockey; heavyweight rider.
Origin:
1815–25; welter 2 + weight
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wel·ter·weight   (wěl'tər-wāt')   
n.  
  1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 147 pounds (66.1 kilograms), between junior welterweight and junior middleweight.
  2. A boxer competing in this weight division.
  3. A contestant in various other sports in a similar weight division.

[From welter, heavyweight boxer, perhaps from welt.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Welterweight

Wel"ter*weight`\, n. 1. (Horse Racing) A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.

2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that of a lightweight and that of a middleweight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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welterweight 
1832, "heavyweight horseman," later "boxer or wrestler of a certain weight" (1896), from earlier welter "heavyweight horseman or boxer" (1804), possibly from welt (v.) "beat severely" (c.1400).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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