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kilting

kilting is the present participle and gerund of kilt.

Meaning of kilt

Verb

kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)

  1. To gather up (skirts) around the body.
    • Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt her skirts (if they needed kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 385

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Noun

kilting (plural kiltings)

  1. A method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it.

Forms of kilting

pluralkiltings

Questions about kilting

What does kilting mean?
Kilting means a method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it.
What is kilting the present participle and gerund of?
Kilting is the present participle and gerund of kilt.
What part of speech is kilting?
Kilting is a noun.
What is the plural of kilting?
The plural of kilting is kiltings.

Words near kilting in the dictionary

  1. kilter
  2. kilters
  3. kiltie
  4. kilties
  5. Kiltimagh
  6. kilting
  7. kiltings
  8. kiltless
  9. kiltlike
  10. kiltmaker
  11. kiltmakers

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