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quilt

noun
/ˈkwɪlt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.

  1. derived from culcita
  2. derived from coilte
  3. derived from quilte
  4. inherited from quilte

Definitions

  1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation…

    A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.

    • My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.

  2. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.

  3. A quilted skirt worn by women.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts

      Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.

      • Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.

    2. To construct a quilt.

    3. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.

      • Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.

    4. To beat or thrash.

      • I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.

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Derived

bedquilt, continental quilt, crazy quilt, honeycomb quilt, memory quilt, nanoquilt, patchwork quilt, quillow, quiltlike, quiltmaker, quiltmaking, quilt show, quilty, quilter, quilting, quilting bee, quilting needle

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at quilt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at quilt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at quilt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA