a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

Present participle of weld, noun_ The action or process of welding, fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure, The process by which substances, such as metal, are united or consolidated by hammering or compression with or without previous softening by heat

A drawer, small chest, or compartment for money, as in a store, Glacial drift composed of an unconsolidated, heterogeneous mixture of clay, sand, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, One of the spaces or cells between the ribbed projections of the platen of a hand-press, intransitive verb_ To cultivate land, transitive verb_ To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate, To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate, verb_ work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation, preposition_ until, up to, as late as (a given time), now dialectal to, to the present time, conjunction_ until, until the time that, As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until