kilt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland

WordNet

Kilt
Definitions
  1. p. p. from Kill. Obs. Spenser.
Kilt noun
Etymology
OGael. cealt clothes, or rather perh. fr. Dan. kilte op to truss, tie up, tuck up.
Definitions
  1. 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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Kilted; present participle & verbal noun Kilting
Definitions
  1. To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. Scot. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913