kilt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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 […].”

2. isim A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
3. isim Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
4. isim A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.

   “I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.”

5. isim A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
6. fiil Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.

   “that unspotted Lamb, That for the Sins of all the World was kilt”