welter-weight

Meanings

Adjective

• between lightweight and middleweight

Noun

• a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class
• 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.

Origin

• Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter + weight. Boxing sense 1896.