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Webster 1913 Edition
Kilt
Kilt
,Noun.
[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
.] Kilt
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Kilted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Kilting
.] To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kilt
KILT
,Noun.
KILT
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