kilt

A knee-length skirt with deep pleats, usually of a tartan wool, worn as part of the dress for men in the Scottish Highlands.

A similar skirt worn by women, girls, and boys.

To tuck up (something) around the body.

In the original Highland dress, that part of the belted plaid which hung below the waist; in modern times, a separate garment, a sort of petticoat reaching from the girdle nearly to the knees, composed of tartan and deeply plaited. The garment is imitated in various fabrics for children’s wear. See kilting.

To tuck up; truss Up (the clothes).

In dressmaking, to lay (a skirt or a flounce) in deep, flat, longitudinal plaits hanging free at the bottom, in the fashion of a Highland kilt.

An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of kill.

Small; lean; slender.

To step lightly and nimbly, as if with the skirts kilted out of the way.

p. p. from kill.