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Meaning of KILT

Pronunciation:  kilt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a knee-length pleated tartan skirt; worn by men in Scottish Highlands
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Kilt\,
    p. p. from {Kill}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
    
  2. \Kilt\, n. [OGael. cealt clothes, or rather perh. fr. Dan.
    kilte op to truss, tie up, tuck up.]
    A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the
    knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the
    Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also {kelt}.]
    
  3. \Kilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kilted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Kilting}.]
    To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. [Scot.] --Sir W.
    Scott.
    
 

 

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