Welter-weight meaning

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(boxing) A boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class.
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Origin of welter-weight

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