Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An arrangement of flat plaits set close together, each one hiding about half of the last, so as generally to make three thicknesses of stuff.
  • noun A tool; an instrument.
  • noun One of the component parts of a thing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Dressmaking) A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of kilt.
  • noun A method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it.

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Examples

  • Hmmmm… I don't think I've done too good a job at 'kilting' off those rumors.

    Interview with Alexander Gordon Smith (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo and Cindy Hannikman) Liviu 2009

  • They came ambling and stumbling, tumbling and capering, kilting their gowns for leap frog, holding one another back, shaken with deep false laughter, smacking one another behind and laughing at their rude malice, calling to one another by familiar nicknames, protesting with sudden dignity at some rough usage, whispering two and two behind their hands.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • She began kilting up her skirt, lifting the hem and tucking it into her belt.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

  • I don't want you as an adversary; it's kilting me.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • She stepped back into the smelly dust cloud that hung over the road, kilting up her skirts into her belt as she had seen the farm women do, and resumed her tired walk north.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • And he was off to the house like an obese whippet, kilting up his robe, his fat calves wobbling, while I sat alarmed and bewildered.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • And he was off to the house like an obese whippet, kilting up his robe, his fat calves wobbling, while I sat alarmed and bewildered.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • And he was off to the house like an obese whippet, kilting up his robe, his fat calves wobbling, while I sat alarmed and bewildered.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Brother Cadfael had wasted no time in clambering into his boots, kilting his habit, and taking and saddling the best horse he could find in the stables.

    The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

  • He thus cut off a detour by the roads, at the mere cost of kilting his habit above the knees, and sandals let out water as freely as they let it in.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

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