diaper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A folded piece of absorbent material, such as paper or cloth, that is placed between a baby's legs and fastened at the waist to contain excretions.
2. n. A similar piece of material, worn by incontinent adults.
3. n. A white cotton or linen fabric patterned with small, duplicative diamond-shaped figures.
4. n. A piece of such cloth.
5. n. Such a pattern.
6. v. To put a diaper on.
7. v. To weave or decorate in a diamond-shaped pattern.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Originally, a silken fabric of one color having a pattern of the same color woven in it; now, a textile fabric having a pattern not strongly defined, and repeated at short intervals; especially, such a fabric of linen, where the pattern is indicated only by the direction of the thread, the whole being white or in the unbleached natural color. Compare damask 1 . The pattern of such diaper is usually a series of squares, lozenges, and the like, or of sets of squares, etc., one within another.
2. n. A pattern for decoration of any kind consisting of a simple figure often repeated, as in the woven fabric.
3. n. Any pattern constantly repeated over a relatively large surface, whether consisting of figures separated by the background only, or of compartments constantly succeeding one another, and filled with a design, especially a geometric design, or one based on a flower-form. It is used in architecture, especially medieval, sculptured in low relief as an ornamental ground, and is frequent as a background in manuscript illumination, in painted panels, especially with gilding, and as a decoration for other flat surfaces.
4. n. In heraldry, same as diapering.
5. n. A towel or napkin.
6. n. A square piece of cloth for swaddling the nates and adjacent parts of au infant; a clout.
7. To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; flower: as, diapered silk.
8. To draw or work in diaper, or as part of a diaper; introduce in a diapered pattern or fabric.
9. To draw a series or succession of flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

Wiktionary

1. n. A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
2. n. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
3. n. North America An absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent.
4. n. The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
5. v. To put diapers on someone.
6. v. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
2. n. (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
3. n. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
4. n. An infant's breechcloth.
5. v. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
6. v. To put a diaper on (a child).
7. v. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures
2. n. garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement