quiltn.¹

Brit.

/kwɪlt/, U.S.

/kwɪlt/

Forms:

α. Middle English cowlte, Middle English coylte, Middle English quoiltene (plural), Middle English qwilt, Middle English qwyllte, Middle English qwylt, Middle English qwylte, Middle English–1500s quylt, Middle English–1500s quylte, Middle English–1600s quilte, Middle English– quilt, 1500s kewllte, 1500s kwylt, 1900s– qualt (Scottish); N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English qvylte.

β. Chiefly northern late Middle English qwhilt, late Middle English qwhylt, late Middle English whelis (plural, transmission error), late Middle English whelt, late Middle English whilte, late Middle English wilt, late Middle English–1500s whilt, 1500s whyelt; Scottish 1800s quhult, 1800s– whult; Irish English (northern) 1900s– whilt, 1900s– whult; N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English wylt.

γ. late Middle English–1500s twylt, 1500s twilte, 1500s–1600s twilt; English regional (northern) 1700s– twilt, 1800s– twult; Scottish pre-1700 tuilt, pre-1700 1700s– twilt, 1800s– twolt, 1800s– twult, 1900s– toalt, 1900s– towlt, 1900s– twalt; N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English twilt.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French coilte.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman coilte, coylte, cuilte, keulte, quelte, quilt, quilte, quiltte, qulte, qwilte and Old French coilte, cuilte, Middle French keulte (also coete , couete , cuete , coiste , coulte , couste , coute , etc.; French couette ) duvet (12th cent.), mattress, cushion (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), ultimately < classical Latin culcita stuffed mattress or cushion for a bed or couch, in post-classical Latin also duvet, blanket, coverlet, further etymology unknown. Compare Old Occitan cóssera (late 13th cent.; also in 14th cent. as cólser , cólsera , etc.), also (with suffix substitution) coisna (a1219; also cosena , cosna ; Old Occitan coltra (1448 in a translation of Dante) is probably < Italian), Catalan †cócera (late 13th cent.), Spanish †cocedra (late 11th cent.), †cólcedra (c1150), Portuguese †cócedra (second half of the 13th cent.), Italian coltre duvet, (in extended use) covering layer, shroud (beginning of the 13th cent.), coltrice mattress, bed (1304; now literary). Compare also post-classical Latin (in British sources) culta , cuilta mattress, bolster, duvet, coverlet (early 13th cent. in the compound cited at quiltpoint n.; 1303, 1349 as quilta).Sanskrit kūrcaḥ (in Vedic texts in uncertain and disputed sense, in post-Vedic texts ‘bunch, brush, tuft of grass’) has sometimes been compared with classical Latin culcita , but is unlikely to be cognate, and is more probably borrowed < a Dravidian language; compare Tamil kuccu tuft, tassel, brush. Some of the later French forms and Romance parallels are derived from the post-classical Latin variant culcitra (already mid 1st cent. a.d. in classical Latin in Petronius Arbiter), which shows inserted -r- (compare similar post-classical Latin and French forms cited at pulpit n.). The two French types with medial -oi- vs. -ou- reflect a divergent phonological development of the Latin etymon in the various French dialects. On β. forms see discussion at Q n. The γ. forms apparently show dissimilation of the initial consonant cluster, the inverse of the development seen e.g. in quitch n.², quinter , variant of twinter adj., and qwarte , variant of thwart adv. (compare also J. Wright Eng. Dial. Grammar (1905) §§241–2, K. Luick Hist. Gram. der englischen Sprache (1940) I. ii. §795, and also German quer (see thwart adv., prep., and adj.), Quark quark n.¹). Surv. Eng. Dial. records pronunciations indicative of these forms especially frequently in all northern counties, and also sporadic examples from the east midlands and Norfolk.

a. A bed covering consisting of two joined pieces of fabric enclosing a layer of soft material (such as wool, cotton, or down) which acts as padding or insulation. Originally: †one used for lying on or as a mattress (obsolete). In later use: such an article used as an outer bedcover, esp. one in which the inner layer is kept in place by (decorative) stitching; a duvet; = continental quilt at continental adj. 2; (also) a counterpane. Also applied occasionally to coverings other than for beds, as toilet quilt n. at toilet n. Compounds 2. See also patchwork quilt at patchwork adj. 1.The modern quilt or duvet is often used as a replacement for the traditional oversheet and blankets (the insulation rating is measured in togs (see tog n.¹ 3)).Earliest recorded in a compound (as a surname).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover > quilt

quilt1276

pourpoint1345

bed-quilt1765

razai1784

bed-cover1828

comforter1832

comfort1834

comfortable1842

yorgan1914

downie1947

1276 Close Rolls Edward I 353 (MED) Joan la Quiltemaker.

c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 27 Ȝwere beon..þine cowltes [v.rr. quiltes, quyltus] and þi covertoures?

1397 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/260/7) m. 2 Item divers. quiltes & matrasse precii xxvj s. viij d.

a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 751 (MED) Sho..did him sit opon hir bed; A quylt ful nobil lay þareon.

1477 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 179 Unum twylt.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvi. 154 Coyltes or matrases or sacques.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 539 (MED) Thei lay down to slepe vpon the grasse, for other quyltes [Fr. couches] ne pilowes hadde thei noon.

1560 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Life (rev. ed.) sig. Aviii^v A coife, made of double linnen clothe, and sowed like a cotten quilt.

1574 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 311 My trundle bed in the chamber above, with a twylt which is wont to lie on my bed.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. i, in Wks. I. 539 And, you haue fastened on a thicke quilt, or flockbed, on the out-side of the dore.

a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iii. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 135 Never a green silk quilt is there..To cast upon my Bed?

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 60 The way of lodging upon Quilts, and in Beds..I need not describe.

1775 Pennsylvania Gaz. 1 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) A most excellent Edderdown Silk Quilt, which affords more warmth than three large blankets.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 296 Beds of state, twilts, pands and testors, napery and broidered work.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xv. 138 Some had made an imitation of the tartan with little parti-coloured stripes patched together like an old wife's quilt.

1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 213 Lurgan Sahib pointed to a native quilt in a corner by the loathsome masks.

1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth ii. 32 Their bedding she took..and ripped the coverings from the quilts..and the cotton in the quilts..she picked over.

a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 128 Charlotte sat..,planning the construction of her own black-and-white quilt. Built up from hexagons, and narrow, it would not be more than a winter's work.

2004 Vogue Living (Austral.) May–June 165 Spread on top of the bed is a typically Provençal deep red boutis quilt.

b. figurative and in extended use. A thick covering; (humorously) †a fat person (obsolete); †a soft bed (obsolete). In later use, with reference to patchwork quilt: something resembling or suggestive of patchwork.

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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 49 How now blowne iacke? how now quilt ?

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. vii. 92 You must lay a finger thick of Moss upon those Shelves, which may serve, as it were for a kind of Quilt.

1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 78 To hide their slumbering heads beneath Those downy quilts, their wings.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 115 The dull quilt of cloud obscuring the sun.

1937 S. MacManus Bold Blades of Donegal 201 Before the green quilt was drawn over him in Frosses graveyard.

1995 House Beautiful Nov. 22/2 Our backyard joined another backyard, part of an immense quilt of streets and houses.

2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass i. 13 A shadow moves across the land. Across the quilt of ochre and brown and green.

†c. Material for making a quilt; quilting. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for quilts

quilting1616

quilt1653

1653 Severall Proc. State Affaires 24 Nov. 3452 A List of the lading of the eight East India ships, come into Holland... 320 peeces Quilts 4300 peeces Adathis 6 Leggers Tamarus 460 Mutfiens of oyle of Sinamond. [Etc.]

1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 427 1 piece yard-wide quilt.

d. A layer of thick material placed over the frames of a beehive to prevent draughts and contain the bees.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive > parts of

moutha1398

stool?1523

skirt1555

hackle1609

smoot1615

imp1618

bolster1623

cop1623

underlaya1642

hack1658

tee-hole1669

frame1673

hood1686

alighting board1780

body box1823

superhive1847

super1855

quilt1870

queen excluder1881

bar-super1884

brood box1888

1870 Amer. Bee Jrnl. June 258/2 We finally had some little quilts (or whatever you choose to call them) made, and they answer admirably.

1873 Brit. Bee Jrnl. Nov. 100/1 His quilts, for so they are called by him, are laid close to the tops of the frames.

1904 J. R. G. Digges Irish Bee Guide 50 Quilts are required upon the frames..to prevent draught; and to keep the bees from ascending into the roof... The quilts should be of felt, carpet, or other warm material.

1952 H. Mace Bee-keeper's Handbk. i. 15 Although many bee-keepers still use quilts, an increasing number have returned to an improved form of Crown board.

1992 H. Riches Hand-bk. Beekeeping 50 Others discard the crown board completely and simply cover the brood frames with a canvass or hessian quilt.

e. Thick material (now often fibreglass) put down in layers as building insulation; a layer or roll of this.

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1895 F. E. Kidder in Architect's & Builder's Pocketbk. (Advt. section) 5 Cabot's Sheathing ‘Quilt’. A practical and cheap method of insulation and deafening by means of dead air spaces.

1905 M. Cooper Pract. Cold Storage 67 The common method of applying is to place a layer of quilt between two sheathings of flooring and nail through it.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 135/1 A quilt of fibre glass between the bedroom ceiling and the roof gives protection against cold.

1977 E. Hall Beginner's Guide to Domest. Plumbing 158 The bedroom ceilings will be insulated against heat loss by means of a fibreglass quilt or loose fill insulating material.

1991 Do It Yourself Feb. 15/2 A continuous layer of glass-fibre or mineral wool quilt.

†2. A piece of padded material worn as lining for armour or in the place of armour. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > stuffed jacket

gambeson1306

pourpointa1325

campesonc1325

acton1328

stuffc1330

haquetona1400

quilta1425

trussing-coat1493

wambais1761

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 57a Salganium, a quylte made of leþer.

1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 127 No hardned steele, no quilt, no warped meale Could make resist.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. vii. 84 The inside of the Bracelet..being lined with a silken quilt, next to his arme.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iv. 219 The hauberk, and the tough interior quilt..its force repress'd.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 111 The plated quilt which next his skin The hero wore.

†3. Medicine. A pad or dressing, spread with a medicinal substance, and applied to the skin. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress

plasterOE

clydec1325

emplastera1382

entretea1400

pottagea1400

poulticea1400

faldellac1400

treatc1400

Gratia Dei?a1425

magdaleon?a1425

strictorya1425

grace of Godc1450

emplastrum?1541

malagma?1541

sparadrap1543

spasmadrap?a1547

plasture?1550

mustard plaster1562

cataplasm1563

oint-plaster1578

quilt1583

compress1599

compression1599

diachylum-plaster1599

pulment1599

pulvinar1599

frontlet1600

sinapism1601

epithemation1615

diapalma1646

opodeldoc1646

attraction1656

treacle plaster1659

melilot emplaster1676

stay1676

oxycroceum1696

melilot plaster1712

adhesive1753

bag1753

mustard poultice1765

soap plaster1789

water dressing1830

poor man's plaster1833

compressor1851

spongiopiline1851

vinegar-poultice1854

water-strapping1854

pitch-plaster1858

jacket poultice1862

mustard leaf1869

mustard paper1874

piline1874

plaster-mull1890

mustard cloth1897

plaster-muslin1899

antiphlogistin1901

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxiv. 32 Make a twilt with .iij. sheetes of graie paper, & bast vpon it cotton woll.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. xix. 339 The same rennet applied as a cataplasme upon a quilt of wooll [Fr. appliqué en cataplasme, sur de laine; L. in uellere adpositum].

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §56 The Quilts of Roses, Spices,..&c. are nothing so helpfull as to take a Cake of New bread.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 68 Concerning Quilts and Caps..such as are made of very strong scented things do affect the Head.

4. The interior of a cricket ball (see quot. 1921).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > ball > interior of

quilt1882

1882 Baily's Monthly Mag. Nov. 391 I took up the inside of a [cricket] ball just newly finished..and hammered it with a wooden mallet..on the substance which is called ‘the quilt’.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §688 Quilter.., wraps worsted thread, by hand, round a cork to make quilt, or core, of cricket ball.

1996 Independent (Nexis) 17 Aug. 37 The quilt-winder..fashions the interior of the ball—the quilt—from cork, synthetic rubbers and fibre, all held in place by a layer of smoked sheet rubber.

Compounds

C1. Objective, as quiltmaker, quilt manufacturer.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > quilting > one who

quiltmaker1276

quilter1563

pourpointer1799

1276 [see sense 1a].

?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Quylte makers, shermen, and armorers.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4559/4 Michael Scott of Fetter-lane,..Quilt-maker.

1854 Census 1851 Table 53 p. cxxv, in Parl. Papers 1852–3 LXXXVIII. i Quilter, quilt-maker.

1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 178 Quilt Manufacturers.

1956 Times 16 Oct. 12/5 Retired quilt manufacturer.

1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 25/3 For hidden among the memories of an old quiltmaker one might catch an echo of the sigh of history.

2004 Quilter's Newsletter Mag. Apr. 32 The quiltmaker..understood the technique of broderie perse.

C2. = quilted adj. 1, as quilt cap, quilt nightgown, quilt work, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > quilted

quilt1503

quilted1541

gamboised1821

capitonné1873

1503 in J. Nichols Hist. & Antiq. Leicester (1800) III. 450 Stuffe of bedding..a quilt happing..a square happing, white and black..a chike happing.

1581 W. Goodyear tr. J. de Cartigny Voy. Wandering Knight i. iii. 7 He at her request made me a shirt of lasciuiousnesse.., a quilt cap of vaine-glorie.

1605 P. Erondelle French Garden sig. D8^v Bring my petty-coate bodyes: I meane my damask quilt bodies with whale bones.

1623 T. Goad Dolefull Even-song sig. B4 Hee..put vpon his head a red quilt cap, hauing a linnen white one vnder it.

1676 London Gaz. No. 1081/4 Also Six Holland Shifts..one Quilt Night Gown.

1748 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 May 1/3 (advt.) Fine Turkey quilt petticoats.

1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 119 Close by stood a small wagon, with a quilt cover.

1938 Times 6 Apr. 11/5 Queen Mary admired the craftsmanship of some quilt work..and some of the women showed her their needle-punctured fingers.

1995 High Country News 4 Sept. 16/1 It's a quiltwork of lodgepole pine, spruce and Douglas fir, with heroic patches of alpine larch and whitebark pine.

2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 17 Time to..remove the quilt jacket, mittens and hat, and defrost.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† quiltn.²

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Apparently related to quilt v.²; further etymology unknown.Perhaps compare the Germanic nouns in sense ‘throat’ cited at querken v., and Danish kulk oesophagus, throat (16th cent.), (regional) kylk , kølk throat, Adam's apple (perhaps related to German Kehle throat: see chel n.).

English regional. Obsolete. rare.

A point in the throat at which swallowing becomes involuntary. Cf. quilt v.²

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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 296 He puts them down the calf's throat beyond the quilt.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

quiltv.¹

Brit.

/kwɪlt/, U.S.

/kwɪlt/

Forms:

α. 1500s quilte, 1500s quylt, 1500s– quilt, 1700s colt (Scottish).

β. 1500s twilt; English regional 1600s 1800s– twilt (east midlands and northern); Scottish pre-1700 tuilt, pre-1700 1700s 1900s– twilt.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quilt n.¹

Etymology: < quilt n.¹ Compare slightly earlier quilted adj., quilting n.¹For the β. forms, see discussion of forms at quilt n.¹; H. Kökeritz Phonology of Suffolk Dial. (1932) records early 20th-cent. pronunciations indicative of the form twilt from Suffolk.

a. transitive. To pad, line, or cover with material, using a method similar to that employed in making a quilt. Also (occasionally): to cover with a quilt. Usually in passive (frequently with with).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other

fur13..

buttonc1380

lashc1440

pointa1470

set1530

tuft1535

vent1547

ruff1548

spangle1548

string1548

superbody1552

to pull out1553

quilt1555

flute1578

seam1590

seed1604

overtrim1622

ruffle1625

tag1627

furbelow1701

tuck1709

flounce1711

pipe1841

skirt1848

ruche1855

pouch1897

panel1901

stag1902

create1908

pin-fit1926

ease1932

pre-board1940

post-board1963

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > quilt > pad, line, or cover with

quilt1555

pourpoint1860

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile > specific

mat1549

down1602

blanket1608

rug1818

quilt1840

towel1865

felt1883

tarpaulin1891

velvet1959

tarp1979

1555 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebell. 35 A priuie cote that he had quilted with angels.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. xii. f. 86^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Jackes quilted and couered ouer wyth leather.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §56 A Bagge quilted with Bran, is likewise very good.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 91 A Waste-coat quilted with Cotton and set thick with Oilet-holes.

1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses iii. 17 Mayn't I quilt my Rope, it galls my Neck strangely?

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 37 He was master of a very handsome demi-peak'd saddle, quilted on the seat with green plush.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 95 His black velvet bonnet was lined with steel, quilted between the metal and his head.

1840 T. C. Haliburton Let. Bag Great Western (U.K. ed.) i. 7 Sheeted, blanketed, and quilted, I remain enveloped in the drapery of my bed.

1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. x. 79 A coat thickly quilted with cotton-wool.

1933 Times 7 Apr. 19/6 A canvas corset quilted with yellow silk.

1998 Independent on Sunday 23 Aug. (Real Life section) 9/6 The gilet was transformed by women, who wore them quilted in silk over the bodices of their hooped dresses.

b. transitive. figurative and in extended use.

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1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. i. 190 Ile so quilt your cap with old Iron, that your coxcombe shall ake the worse these seuen yeeres for 't.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. xxi. 184 Long standing tents were quilted with timber, for their stronger support.

1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. IV. ix. 38 The Spankers, Spur-Royals, Rose-Nobles, and other Coriander Seed with which she was quilted all over.

1808 W. Scott Marmion v. iii. 244 His steel jack, a swarthy vest, With iron quilted well.

1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 79 The gorgeous Ram..whose great pelt is rolled To quilt a thousand hills with fire.

1960 N. Maccaig in K. Allott Penguin Bk. Contemp. Verse (1962) 235 One o'clock Booms on the leaves with which the trees are quilted.

2002 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 27 July b1 The valley is flat and quilted with fields.

a. transitive. To fasten together (two pieces of fabric) by stitches or lines of stitching so as to hold in position a layer of wool, cotton, or other soft material placed between them; cf. quilt n.¹ 1a. Also: to sew together (several layers of fabric), esp. by stitches arranged in a regular or decorative pattern. Occasionally in extended use.

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poin1395

quilt1555

bastea1425

quilt1555

flesh-baste1611

interbaste1611

interbastate1657

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 79 The mens [apparell] is double and quilted [L. Viros more Turcorum insuto minutim gossipio ad belli usum duplicibus].

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 63 Thy Father..had neuer the art to twilt vp such a grim triangle of hair as that.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 96/1 Quilte the bagge least the herbes sacke the one vpon the other.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. i. 12 Quilt it in a manner of a course imbroydery.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 140 By quilting thirteen fold of their strongest Linnen together.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 25 Quilted [of a Coach] with small tuffts.

1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 14 Skirt of a Lady's Dress; sky-blue satin, quilted round the lower border with a scroll.

1926 E. F. Thomas Rendezvous xxvi. 298 It was a pretty couvre-pieds, pale blue and comfortably quilted.

?a1958 F. B. Farris From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents (1985) 18 What a remarkable quilter it [sc. a sewing machine] had with which our sunbonnets could be quilted.

2001 Piecework May–June 15/1 Hanten are heavy coats. Three layers of fabric are quilted together with three to four stitches per inch.

†b. transitive. To compile (a literary work) out of extracts from various sources; to join together (passages of text). Chiefly depreciative. Obsolete.With reference to the action of joining together materials to make a (patchwork) quilt.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > compile (a work) [verb (transitive)]

compilea1387

quilt1605

to put together1862

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 11 It's quilted as it were out of shreds of divers Poets.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 10 Manuals, and Handmaids of Devotion,..clapt together, and quilted out of Scripture phrase.

1891 Rev. of Reviews 510/2 Mrs. Ross quilts together numerous extracts.

†c. intransitive. To be capable of being sewn into a quilt. Obsolete. rare.

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1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre x. 38 Buckram..is too stiffe and unplyable, by which means it will not quilt like the other.

d. transitive. To mark or seam (a surface, esp. a person's skin) with points or lines resembling the stitching in a quilt. Chiefly in passive.

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1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 198 An hateful phyz, quilted into a thousand seams by the hand of deformity.

1808 Sketches of Char. (1813) I. 164 ‘Poor Amelia!’ cried Mrs. Pytt, ‘she's terribly quilted’ [with smallpox].

1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xiv. 113 Her little forehead became quilted with very unbecoming wrinkles.

1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xxxiii. 239/1 Xanthoma of the skin is commonly seen in caged psittacines... The skin is thickened, yellowish, and quilted with many indented and nonfunctional feather follicles.

†3. transitive. To sew up (something) between two pieces of cloth, esp. for safe keeping; to stitch (a medicinal substance) between pieces of cloth to facilitate its application (cf. quilt n.¹ 3). Also figurative. Obsolete.

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besewa1375

sewa1375

quilt1562

to stitch up1590

enseam1605

to sew up1611

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 62^v, in Bulwarke of Defence The Nutmegge..is..holsome in plasters for the stomacke, twilted in Leather and Silke.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 185 They tooke from me the inward doublet wherein I had quilted the gold.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. xxxix. 1072 The powders..must bee sewed up or quilted in a bagge of linnen or taffaty.

1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 54 Some of the Protestant [Bishops] doe quilt a gentler sence into these words.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ix. 256 Those that..were found too light, Quilt Lead into their Belts, to give them weight.

1745 J. Byrom in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1857) II. ii. 410 (transcript from orig. shorthand) He had three guineas quilted in the flap of his waistcoat.

1768 W. Alexander Exper. Ess. i. 42 Some practitioners have applied it to the surface of the skin in various forms, such as..the dry powder quilted between the folds of a waistcoat.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 265 Though I should die at the back of a dyke, they'll find as mickle quilted in this auld blue gown as will bury me like a Christian.

1891 W. D. Hamilton Pref. State Papers, Domest. Ser. 1645–7 p. ix These secret despatches..were carried by a woman quilted up in a truss of linen.

4. transitive. To cover with interlaced cord. In later use English regional (Isle of Wight). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with a net or network

net1512

quilt?1611

benet1614

spider-web1823

overnet1837

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > net > cover with

quilt?1611

spider-web1823

enlace1850

web1876

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads x. 230 His helmit fashion'd of a hide; the workman did bestow Much labour in it, quilting it with bowstrings.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Laboratory With a strong pack~thread the whole is quilted to keep the shot from moving.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliii. 35 A short pipe, quilted over with string.

1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 53 Quilt,..to cover a ball with a network of twine.

5. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. To make a quilt or quilts.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > make other specific articles or materials [verb (intransitive)] > quilts

quilt1736

1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 6 Nov. 2/1 (advt.) She Sews, Marks and Quilts in the best Manner & understands Cooking well.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. 23 I was washing, I was starching, I was scouring, I was quilting.

1823 J. R. Anthony in Z. Pease Life in New Bedford Hund. Yrs. Ago (1925) 67 Took tea at father's; Nat and Anna, Mrs. Tom Rotch and some others there a-quilting.

1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 21 Miss Roxy and Miss Ruey..could upholster and quilt.

1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! iii. i. 189 While she and Alexandra patched and pieced and quilted, she talked incessantly.

1978 N. Jones Embroidery 14/2 While some women quilted in their own homes, others..travelled round..staying in each house to work until a quilt was completed.

2004 Quilter's Newslet. Mag. Nov. 10/2 Kathy says she quilts as therapy.

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quiltv.²

Brit.

/kwɪlt/, U.S.

/kwɪlt/

Forms: 1600s 1800s– quilt, 1800s– quilty (English regional (Devon)).

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare later quilt n.²Perhaps compare earlier querken v. and the Germanic verbs cited at that entry, and also Swedish kolka , kulka to gargle (17th cent.), to guzzle (18th cent.), Old Danish kylke , all in sense ‘to strangle’, and Danish kulke to drink greedily, to guzzle, kulpe , †kvulpe to eat or drink greedily and noisily, producing a gargling sound, to gobble or guzzle (all 17th cent.). These are partly of imitative origin, and partly denominal formations < the nouns cited at quilt n.² However, the final consonant is different in all of them, and any relationship with the English word is difficult to explain phonologically.

Now English regional (chiefly south-western).

transitive. To swallow (food). Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (intransitive)] > swallow

quilta1658

swallowa1700

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (transitive)] > swallow

swallowc1000

overswallowa1400

engluta1492

slup1598

deglute1599

to take down1603

glut-glut1650

quilta1658

to get down1662

regurgitate1670

reswallow1792

to take on board1813

glutch1825

down1852

deglutate1867

a1658 J. Cleveland Obsequies in Wks. (1687) 216 With as intens'd a Zeal, As Saints upon a fast Night quilt a Meal.

1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan I. i. xv. 121 I had learned that to ‘quilty’ is the proper English for to ‘swallow’.

1896 Eng. Illustr. Mag. June 256 I be troubled wi' such a hose in my throat, Tom, that I can scarce quilty.

1903 E. H. Goddard in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 683/1 [N. Wiltshire] My drawt's that bad as I caan't quilt nothin.

1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. Quilt,..to swallow.

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quiltv.³

Brit.

/kwɪlt/, U.S.

/kwɪlt/

Forms:

α. 1800s– quilt, 1900s– quelt (English regional (Surrey)).

β. Scottish 1800s quhult, 1800s whult.

γ. English regional 1800s– twilt (east midlands and northern), 1800s– twult (Cumberland); Scottish 1900s– twilt (Orkney).

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: quilt v.¹

Etymology: Probably a transferred use of quilt v.¹ Compare quot. 1630 at quilt v.¹ 1b, and English regional to quilt one's jacket to beat (a person) soundly (recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. quilt v.¹ from the second half of the 19th cent. and later).

1. transitive. Chiefly regional. To beat or thrash (a person or animal).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)]

abeatOE

beatc1000

dingc1300

dintc1300

bulka1400

batc1440

hampera1529

pommel1530

lump1546

pummel1548

bebatter1567

filch1567

peal-pelt1582

reverberate1599

vapulate1603

over-labour1632

polt1652

bepat1676

flog1801

quilt1822

meller1862

tund1885

massage1924

1822 Boxiana in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 461 Oliver, too, after being battered by every body else, quilted him easy.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. xix. 195 Your Cumberland critters,..the more you quilt them, the more they wont go.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. iii. 10 [He] quilted the old crocodile of a horse all the way.

1893 Forest Tithes 160 Leave off quiltin' me.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 120 An extensive vocabulary of fighting terms. Here are some of the best..roll into, vacuum, quilt and stoush a person.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 223/2 Quilt,..to beat, thrash.

1973 D. Stuart Morning Star, Evening Star 111 More than one bloke I've seen Joe quilt good and proper for trying to make a joke of it.

†2. transitive. Cricket. To hit (a ball or balls) very hard, esp. for a sustained period of time; to punish (the bowling) (cf. punish v. 3d). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > types of batting

guard1744

collar1859

quilt1866

paste1894

to farm the strike1901

1866 Baily's Monthly Mag. Feb. 92 Mr Lyttleton had an early taste of the lobs; these he quilted awfully.

1867 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 23) 69 That punishing bats-man, Mr. Lucas, ‘quilted’ the Colts' [printed Colts,] bowling tremendously.

1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket ii. 61 A batsman may get bowled first ball, a bowler may be quilted all over the field without getting a wicket.

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n.¹1276

n.²a1722

v.¹1555

v.²a1658

v.³1822

单词	quilt
释义	quiltn.¹ Brit. /kwɪlt/, U.S. /kwɪlt/ Forms: α. Middle English cowlte, Middle English coylte, Middle English quoiltene (plural), Middle English qwilt, Middle English qwyllte, Middle English qwylt, Middle English qwylte, Middle English–1500s quylt, Middle English–1500s quylte, Middle English–1600s quilte, Middle English– quilt, 1500s kewllte, 1500s kwylt, 1900s– qualt (Scottish); N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English qvylte. β. Chiefly northern late Middle English qwhilt, late Middle English qwhylt, late Middle English whelis (plural, transmission error), late Middle English whelt, late Middle English whilte, late Middle English wilt, late Middle English–1500s whilt, 1500s whyelt; Scottish 1800s quhult, 1800s– whult; Irish English (northern) 1900s– whilt, 1900s– whult; N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English wylt. γ. late Middle English–1500s twylt, 1500s twilte, 1500s–1600s twilt; English regional (northern) 1700s– twilt, 1800s– twult; Scottish pre-1700 tuilt, pre-1700 1700s– twilt, 1800s– twolt, 1800s– twult, 1900s– toalt, 1900s– towlt, 1900s– twalt; N.E.D. (1902) also records a form late Middle English twilt. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French coilte. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman coilte, coylte, cuilte, keulte, quelte, quilt, quilte, quiltte, qulte, qwilte and Old French coilte, cuilte, Middle French keulte (also coete , couete , cuete , coiste , coulte , couste , coute , etc.; French couette ) duvet (12th cent.), mattress, cushion (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), ultimately < classical Latin culcita stuffed mattress or cushion for a bed or couch, in post-classical Latin also duvet, blanket, coverlet, further etymology unknown. Compare Old Occitan cóssera (late 13th cent.; also in 14th cent. as cólser , cólsera , etc.), also (with suffix substitution) coisna (a1219; also cosena , cosna ; Old Occitan coltra (1448 in a translation of Dante) is probably < Italian), Catalan †cócera (late 13th cent.), Spanish †cocedra (late 11th cent.), †cólcedra (c1150), Portuguese †cócedra (second half of the 13th cent.), Italian coltre duvet, (in extended use) covering layer, shroud (beginning of the 13th cent.), coltrice mattress, bed (1304; now literary). Compare also post-classical Latin (in British sources) culta , cuilta mattress, bolster, duvet, coverlet (early 13th cent. in the compound cited at quiltpoint n.; 1303, 1349 as quilta).Sanskrit kūrcaḥ (in Vedic texts in uncertain and disputed sense, in post-Vedic texts ‘bunch, brush, tuft of grass’) has sometimes been compared with classical Latin culcita , but is unlikely to be cognate, and is more probably borrowed < a Dravidian language; compare Tamil kuccu tuft, tassel, brush. Some of the later French forms and Romance parallels are derived from the post-classical Latin variant culcitra (already mid 1st cent. a.d. in classical Latin in Petronius Arbiter), which shows inserted -r- (compare similar post-classical Latin and French forms cited at pulpit n.). The two French types with medial -oi- vs. -ou- reflect a divergent phonological development of the Latin etymon in the various French dialects. On β. forms see discussion at Q n. The γ. forms apparently show dissimilation of the initial consonant cluster, the inverse of the development seen e.g. in quitch n.², quinter , variant of twinter adj., and qwarte , variant of thwart adv. (compare also J. Wright Eng. Dial. Grammar (1905) §§241–2, K. Luick Hist. Gram. der englischen Sprache (1940) I. ii. §795, and also German quer (see thwart adv., prep., and adj.), Quark quark n.¹). Surv. Eng. Dial. records pronunciations indicative of these forms especially frequently in all northern counties, and also sporadic examples from the east midlands and Norfolk. 1. a. A bed covering consisting of two joined pieces of fabric enclosing a layer of soft material (such as wool, cotton, or down) which acts as padding or insulation. Originally: †one used for lying on or as a mattress (obsolete). In later use: such an article used as an outer bedcover, esp. one in which the inner layer is kept in place by (decorative) stitching; a duvet; = continental quilt at continental adj. 2; (also) a counterpane. Also applied occasionally to coverings other than for beds, as toilet quilt n. at toilet n. Compounds 2. See also patchwork quilt at patchwork adj. 1.The modern quilt or duvet is often used as a replacement for the traditional oversheet and blankets (the insulation rating is measured in togs (see tog n.¹ 3)).Earliest recorded in a compound (as a surname). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover > quilt quilt1276 pourpoint1345 bed-quilt1765 razai1784 bed-cover1828 comforter1832 comfort1834 comfortable1842 yorgan1914 downie1947 1276 Close Rolls Edward I 353 (MED) Joan la Quiltemaker. c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 27 Ȝwere beon..þine cowltes [v.rr. quiltes, quyltus] and þi covertoures? 1397 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/260/7) m. 2 Item divers. quiltes & matrasse precii xxvj s. viij d. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 751 (MED) Sho..did him sit opon hir bed; A quylt ful nobil lay þareon. 1477 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 179 Unum twylt. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvi. 154 Coyltes or matrases or sacques. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 539 (MED) Thei lay down to slepe vpon the grasse, for other quyltes [Fr. couches] ne pilowes hadde thei noon. 1560 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Life (rev. ed.) sig. Aviii^v A coife, made of double linnen clothe, and sowed like a cotten quilt. 1574 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 311 My trundle bed in the chamber above, with a twylt which is wont to lie on my bed. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. i, in Wks. I. 539 And, you haue fastened on a thicke quilt, or flockbed, on the out-side of the dore. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iii. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 135 Never a green silk quilt is there..To cast upon my Bed? 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 60 The way of lodging upon Quilts, and in Beds..I need not describe. 1775 Pennsylvania Gaz. 1 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) A most excellent Edderdown Silk Quilt, which affords more warmth than three large blankets. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 296 Beds of state, twilts, pands and testors, napery and broidered work. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xv. 138 Some had made an imitation of the tartan with little parti-coloured stripes patched together like an old wife's quilt. 1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 213 Lurgan Sahib pointed to a native quilt in a corner by the loathsome masks. 1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth ii. 32 Their bedding she took..and ripped the coverings from the quilts..and the cotton in the quilts..she picked over. a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 128 Charlotte sat..,planning the construction of her own black-and-white quilt. Built up from hexagons, and narrow, it would not be more than a winter's work. 2004 Vogue Living (Austral.) May–June 165 Spread on top of the bed is a typically Provençal deep red boutis quilt. b. figurative and in extended use. A thick covering; (humorously) †a fat person (obsolete); †a soft bed (obsolete). In later use, with reference to patchwork quilt: something resembling or suggestive of patchwork. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 49 How now blowne iacke? how now quilt ? View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. vii. 92 You must lay a finger thick of Moss upon those Shelves, which may serve, as it were for a kind of Quilt. 1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 78 To hide their slumbering heads beneath Those downy quilts, their wings. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 115 The dull quilt of cloud obscuring the sun. 1937 S. MacManus Bold Blades of Donegal 201 Before the green quilt was drawn over him in Frosses graveyard. 1995 House Beautiful Nov. 22/2 Our backyard joined another backyard, part of an immense quilt of streets and houses. 2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass i. 13 A shadow moves across the land. Across the quilt of ochre and brown and green. †c. Material for making a quilt; quilting. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for quilts quilting1616 quilt1653 1653 Severall Proc. State Affaires 24 Nov. 3452 A List of the lading of the eight East India ships, come into Holland... 320 peeces Quilts 4300 peeces Adathis 6 Leggers Tamarus 460 Mutfiens of oyle of Sinamond. [Etc.] 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 427 1 piece yard-wide quilt. d. A layer of thick material placed over the frames of a beehive to prevent draughts and contain the bees. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive > parts of moutha1398 stool?1523 skirt1555 hackle1609 smoot1615 imp1618 bolster1623 cop1623 underlaya1642 hack1658 tee-hole1669 frame1673 hood1686 alighting board1780 body box1823 superhive1847 super1855 quilt1870 queen excluder1881 bar-super1884 brood box1888 1870 Amer. Bee Jrnl. June 258/2 We finally had some little quilts (or whatever you choose to call them) made, and they answer admirably. 1873 Brit. Bee Jrnl. Nov. 100/1 His quilts, for so they are called by him, are laid close to the tops of the frames. 1904 J. R. G. Digges Irish Bee Guide 50 Quilts are required upon the frames..to prevent draught; and to keep the bees from ascending into the roof... The quilts should be of felt, carpet, or other warm material. 1952 H. Mace Bee-keeper's Handbk. i. 15 Although many bee-keepers still use quilts, an increasing number have returned to an improved form of Crown board. 1992 H. Riches Hand-bk. Beekeeping 50 Others discard the crown board completely and simply cover the brood frames with a canvass or hessian quilt. e. Thick material (now often fibreglass) put down in layers as building insulation; a layer or roll of this. ΚΠ 1895 F. E. Kidder in Architect's & Builder's Pocketbk. (Advt. section) 5 Cabot's Sheathing ‘Quilt’. A practical and cheap method of insulation and deafening by means of dead air spaces. 1905 M. Cooper Pract. Cold Storage 67 The common method of applying is to place a layer of quilt between two sheathings of flooring and nail through it. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 135/1 A quilt of fibre glass between the bedroom ceiling and the roof gives protection against cold. 1977 E. Hall Beginner's Guide to Domest. Plumbing 158 The bedroom ceilings will be insulated against heat loss by means of a fibreglass quilt or loose fill insulating material. 1991 Do It Yourself Feb. 15/2 A continuous layer of glass-fibre or mineral wool quilt. †2. A piece of padded material worn as lining for armour or in the place of armour. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > stuffed jacket gambeson1306 pourpointa1325 campesonc1325 acton1328 stuffc1330 haquetona1400 quilta1425 trussing-coat1493 wambais1761 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 57a Salganium, a quylte made of leþer. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 127 No hardned steele, no quilt, no warped meale Could make resist. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. vii. 84 The inside of the Bracelet..being lined with a silken quilt, next to his arme. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iv. 219 The hauberk, and the tough interior quilt..its force repress'd. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 111 The plated quilt which next his skin The hero wore. †3. Medicine. A pad or dressing, spread with a medicinal substance, and applied to the skin. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress plasterOE clydec1325 emplastera1382 entretea1400 pottagea1400 poulticea1400 faldellac1400 treatc1400 Gratia Dei?a1425 magdaleon?a1425 strictorya1425 grace of Godc1450 emplastrum?1541 malagma?1541 sparadrap1543 spasmadrap?a1547 plasture?1550 mustard plaster1562 cataplasm1563 oint-plaster1578 quilt1583 compress1599 compression1599 diachylum-plaster1599 pulment1599 pulvinar1599 frontlet1600 sinapism1601 epithemation1615 diapalma1646 opodeldoc1646 attraction1656 treacle plaster1659 melilot emplaster1676 stay1676 oxycroceum1696 melilot plaster1712 adhesive1753 bag1753 mustard poultice1765 soap plaster1789 water dressing1830 poor man's plaster1833 compressor1851 spongiopiline1851 vinegar-poultice1854 water-strapping1854 pitch-plaster1858 jacket poultice1862 mustard leaf1869 mustard paper1874 piline1874 plaster-mull1890 mustard cloth1897 plaster-muslin1899 antiphlogistin1901 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxiv. 32 Make a twilt with .iij. sheetes of graie paper, & bast vpon it cotton woll. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. xix. 339 The same rennet applied as a cataplasme upon a quilt of wooll [Fr. appliqué en cataplasme, sur de laine; L. in uellere adpositum]. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §56 The Quilts of Roses, Spices,..&c. are nothing so helpfull as to take a Cake of New bread. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 68 Concerning Quilts and Caps..such as are made of very strong scented things do affect the Head. 4. The interior of a cricket ball (see quot. 1921). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > ball > interior of quilt1882 1882 Baily's Monthly Mag. Nov. 391 I took up the inside of a [cricket] ball just newly finished..and hammered it with a wooden mallet..on the substance which is called ‘the quilt’. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §688 Quilter.., wraps worsted thread, by hand, round a cork to make quilt, or core, of cricket ball. 1996 Independent (Nexis) 17 Aug. 37 The quilt-winder..fashions the interior of the ball—the quilt—from cork, synthetic rubbers and fibre, all held in place by a layer of smoked sheet rubber. Compounds C1. Objective, as quiltmaker, quilt manufacturer. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > quilting > one who quiltmaker1276 quilter1563 pourpointer1799 1276 [see sense 1a]. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Quylte makers, shermen, and armorers. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4559/4 Michael Scott of Fetter-lane,..Quilt-maker. 1854 Census 1851 Table 53 p. cxxv, in Parl. Papers 1852–3 LXXXVIII. i Quilter, quilt-maker. 1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 178 Quilt Manufacturers. 1956 Times 16 Oct. 12/5 Retired quilt manufacturer. 1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 25/3 For hidden among the memories of an old quiltmaker one might catch an echo of the sigh of history. 2004 Quilter's Newsletter Mag. Apr. 32 The quiltmaker..understood the technique of broderie perse. C2. = quilted adj. 1, as quilt cap, quilt nightgown, quilt work, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > quilted quilt1503 quilted1541 gamboised1821 capitonné1873 1503 in J. Nichols Hist. & Antiq. Leicester (1800) III. 450 Stuffe of bedding..a quilt happing..a square happing, white and black..a chike happing. 1581 W. Goodyear tr. J. de Cartigny Voy. Wandering Knight i. iii. 7 He at her request made me a shirt of lasciuiousnesse.., a quilt cap of vaine-glorie. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden sig. D8^v Bring my petty-coate bodyes: I meane my damask quilt bodies with whale bones. 1623 T. Goad Dolefull Even-song sig. B4 Hee..put vpon his head a red quilt cap, hauing a linnen white one vnder it. 1676 London Gaz. No. 1081/4 Also Six Holland Shifts..one Quilt Night Gown. 1748 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 May 1/3 (advt.) Fine Turkey quilt petticoats. 1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 119 Close by stood a small wagon, with a quilt cover. 1938 Times 6 Apr. 11/5 Queen Mary admired the craftsmanship of some quilt work..and some of the women showed her their needle-punctured fingers. 1995 High Country News 4 Sept. 16/1 It's a quiltwork of lodgepole pine, spruce and Douglas fir, with heroic patches of alpine larch and whitebark pine. 2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 17 Time to..remove the quilt jacket, mittens and hat, and defrost. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quiltn.² Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Apparently related to quilt v.²; further etymology unknown.Perhaps compare the Germanic nouns in sense ‘throat’ cited at querken v., and Danish kulk oesophagus, throat (16th cent.), (regional) kylk , kølk throat, Adam's apple (perhaps related to German Kehle throat: see chel n.). English regional. Obsolete. rare. A point in the throat at which swallowing becomes involuntary. Cf. quilt v.² ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 296 He puts them down the calf's throat beyond the quilt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019). quiltv.¹ Brit. /kwɪlt/, U.S. /kwɪlt/ Forms: α. 1500s quilte, 1500s quylt, 1500s– quilt, 1700s colt (Scottish). β. 1500s twilt; English regional 1600s 1800s– twilt (east midlands and northern); Scottish pre-1700 tuilt, pre-1700 1700s 1900s– twilt. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quilt n.¹ Etymology: < quilt n.¹ Compare slightly earlier quilted adj., quilting n.¹For the β. forms, see discussion of forms at quilt n.¹; H. Kökeritz Phonology of Suffolk Dial. (1932) records early 20th-cent. pronunciations indicative of the form twilt from Suffolk. 1. a. transitive. To pad, line, or cover with material, using a method similar to that employed in making a quilt. Also (occasionally): to cover with a quilt. Usually in passive (frequently with with). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other fur13.. buttonc1380 lashc1440 pointa1470 set1530 tuft1535 vent1547 ruff1548 spangle1548 string1548 superbody1552 to pull out1553 quilt1555 flute1578 seam1590 seed1604 overtrim1622 ruffle1625 tag1627 furbelow1701 tuck1709 flounce1711 pipe1841 skirt1848 ruche1855 pouch1897 panel1901 stag1902 create1908 pin-fit1926 ease1932 pre-board1940 post-board1963 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > quilt > pad, line, or cover with quilt1555 pourpoint1860 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile > specific mat1549 down1602 blanket1608 rug1818 quilt1840 towel1865 felt1883 tarpaulin1891 velvet1959 tarp1979 1555 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebell. 35 A priuie cote that he had quilted with angels. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. xii. f. 86^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Jackes quilted and couered ouer wyth leather. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §56 A Bagge quilted with Bran, is likewise very good. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 91 A Waste-coat quilted with Cotton and set thick with Oilet-holes. 1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses iii. 17 Mayn't I quilt my Rope, it galls my Neck strangely? 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 37 He was master of a very handsome demi-peak'd saddle, quilted on the seat with green plush. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 95 His black velvet bonnet was lined with steel, quilted between the metal and his head. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Let. Bag Great Western (U.K. ed.) i. 7 Sheeted, blanketed, and quilted, I remain enveloped in the drapery of my bed. 1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. x. 79 A coat thickly quilted with cotton-wool. 1933 Times 7 Apr. 19/6 A canvas corset quilted with yellow silk. 1998 Independent on Sunday 23 Aug. (Real Life section) 9/6 The gilet was transformed by women, who wore them quilted in silk over the bodices of their hooped dresses. b. transitive. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. i. 190 Ile so quilt your cap with old Iron, that your coxcombe shall ake the worse these seuen yeeres for 't. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. xxi. 184 Long standing tents were quilted with timber, for their stronger support. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. IV. ix. 38 The Spankers, Spur-Royals, Rose-Nobles, and other Coriander Seed with which she was quilted all over. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. iii. 244 His steel jack, a swarthy vest, With iron quilted well. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 79 The gorgeous Ram..whose great pelt is rolled To quilt a thousand hills with fire. 1960 N. Maccaig in K. Allott Penguin Bk. Contemp. Verse (1962) 235 One o'clock Booms on the leaves with which the trees are quilted. 2002 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 27 July b1 The valley is flat and quilted with fields. 2. a. transitive. To fasten together (two pieces of fabric) by stitches or lines of stitching so as to hold in position a layer of wool, cotton, or other soft material placed between them; cf. quilt n.¹ 1a. Also: to sew together (several layers of fabric), esp. by stitches arranged in a regular or decorative pattern. Occasionally in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > quilt poin1395 quilt1555 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > sew together > quilt bastea1425 quilt1555 flesh-baste1611 interbaste1611 interbastate1657 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 79 The mens [apparell] is double and quilted [L. Viros more Turcorum insuto minutim gossipio ad belli usum duplicibus]. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 63 Thy Father..had neuer the art to twilt vp such a grim triangle of hair as that. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 96/1 Quilte the bagge least the herbes sacke the one vpon the other. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. i. 12 Quilt it in a manner of a course imbroydery. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 140 By quilting thirteen fold of their strongest Linnen together. 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 25 Quilted [of a Coach] with small tuffts. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 14 Skirt of a Lady's Dress; sky-blue satin, quilted round the lower border with a scroll. 1926 E. F. Thomas Rendezvous xxvi. 298 It was a pretty couvre-pieds, pale blue and comfortably quilted. ?a1958 F. B. Farris From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents (1985) 18 What a remarkable quilter it [sc. a sewing machine] had with which our sunbonnets could be quilted. 2001 Piecework May–June 15/1 Hanten are heavy coats. Three layers of fabric are quilted together with three to four stitches per inch. †b. transitive. To compile (a literary work) out of extracts from various sources; to join together (passages of text). Chiefly depreciative. Obsolete.With reference to the action of joining together materials to make a (patchwork) quilt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > compile (a work) [verb (transitive)] compilea1387 quilt1605 to put together1862 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 11 It's quilted as it were out of shreds of divers Poets. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 10 Manuals, and Handmaids of Devotion,..clapt together, and quilted out of Scripture phrase. 1891 Rev. of Reviews 510/2 Mrs. Ross quilts together numerous extracts. †c. intransitive. To be capable of being sewn into a quilt. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre x. 38 Buckram..is too stiffe and unplyable, by which means it will not quilt like the other. d. transitive. To mark or seam (a surface, esp. a person's skin) with points or lines resembling the stitching in a quilt. Chiefly in passive. ΚΠ 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 198 An hateful phyz, quilted into a thousand seams by the hand of deformity. 1808 Sketches of Char. (1813) I. 164 ‘Poor Amelia!’ cried Mrs. Pytt, ‘she's terribly quilted’ [with smallpox]. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xiv. 113 Her little forehead became quilted with very unbecoming wrinkles. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xxxiii. 239/1 Xanthoma of the skin is commonly seen in caged psittacines... The skin is thickened, yellowish, and quilted with many indented and nonfunctional feather follicles. †3. transitive. To sew up (something) between two pieces of cloth, esp. for safe keeping; to stitch (a medicinal substance) between pieces of cloth to facilitate its application (cf. quilt n.¹ 3). Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > sew together > enclose in besewa1375 sewa1375 quilt1562 to stitch up1590 enseam1605 to sew up1611 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 62^v, in Bulwarke of Defence The Nutmegge..is..holsome in plasters for the stomacke, twilted in Leather and Silke. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 185 They tooke from me the inward doublet wherein I had quilted the gold. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. xxxix. 1072 The powders..must bee sewed up or quilted in a bagge of linnen or taffaty. 1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 54 Some of the Protestant [Bishops] doe quilt a gentler sence into these words. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ix. 256 Those that..were found too light, Quilt Lead into their Belts, to give them weight. 1745 J. Byrom in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1857) II. ii. 410 (transcript from orig. shorthand) He had three guineas quilted in the flap of his waistcoat. 1768 W. Alexander Exper. Ess. i. 42 Some practitioners have applied it to the surface of the skin in various forms, such as..the dry powder quilted between the folds of a waistcoat. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 265 Though I should die at the back of a dyke, they'll find as mickle quilted in this auld blue gown as will bury me like a Christian. 1891 W. D. Hamilton Pref. State Papers, Domest. Ser. 1645–7 p. ix These secret despatches..were carried by a woman quilted up in a truss of linen. 4. transitive. To cover with interlaced cord. In later use English regional (Isle of Wight). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with a net or network net1512 quilt?1611 benet1614 spider-web1823 overnet1837 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > net > cover with quilt?1611 spider-web1823 enlace1850 web1876 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads x. 230 His helmit fashion'd of a hide; the workman did bestow Much labour in it, quilting it with bowstrings. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Laboratory With a strong pack~thread the whole is quilted to keep the shot from moving. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliii. 35 A short pipe, quilted over with string. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 53 Quilt,..to cover a ball with a network of twine. 5. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. To make a quilt or quilts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > make other specific articles or materials [verb (intransitive)] > quilts quilt1736 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 6 Nov. 2/1 (advt.) She Sews, Marks and Quilts in the best Manner & understands Cooking well. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. 23 I was washing, I was starching, I was scouring, I was quilting. 1823 J. R. Anthony in Z. Pease Life in New Bedford Hund. Yrs. Ago (1925) 67 Took tea at father's; Nat and Anna, Mrs. Tom Rotch and some others there a-quilting. 1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 21 Miss Roxy and Miss Ruey..could upholster and quilt. 1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! iii. i. 189 While she and Alexandra patched and pieced and quilted, she talked incessantly. 1978 N. Jones Embroidery 14/2 While some women quilted in their own homes, others..travelled round..staying in each house to work until a quilt was completed. 2004 Quilter's Newslet. Mag. Nov. 10/2 Kathy says she quilts as therapy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quiltv.² Brit. /kwɪlt/, U.S. /kwɪlt/ Forms: 1600s 1800s– quilt, 1800s– quilty (English regional (Devon)). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare later quilt n.²Perhaps compare earlier querken v. and the Germanic verbs cited at that entry, and also Swedish kolka , kulka to gargle (17th cent.), to guzzle (18th cent.), Old Danish kylke , all in sense ‘to strangle’, and Danish kulke to drink greedily, to guzzle, kulpe , †kvulpe to eat or drink greedily and noisily, producing a gargling sound, to gobble or guzzle (all 17th cent.). These are partly of imitative origin, and partly denominal formations < the nouns cited at quilt n.² However, the final consonant is different in all of them, and any relationship with the English word is difficult to explain phonologically. Now English regional (chiefly south-western). transitive. To swallow (food). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (intransitive)] > swallow quilta1658 swallowa1700 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (transitive)] > swallow swallowc1000 overswallowa1400 engluta1492 slup1598 deglute1599 to take down1603 glut-glut1650 quilta1658 to get down1662 regurgitate1670 reswallow1792 to take on board1813 glutch1825 down1852 deglutate1867 a1658 J. Cleveland Obsequies in Wks. (1687) 216 With as intens'd a Zeal, As Saints upon a fast Night quilt a Meal. 1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan I. i. xv. 121 I had learned that to ‘quilty’ is the proper English for to ‘swallow’. 1896 Eng. Illustr. Mag. June 256 I be troubled wi' such a hose in my throat, Tom, that I can scarce quilty. 1903 E. H. Goddard in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 683/1 [N. Wiltshire] My drawt's that bad as I caan't quilt nothin. 1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. Quilt,..to swallow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quiltv.³ Brit. /kwɪlt/, U.S. /kwɪlt/ Forms: α. 1800s– quilt, 1900s– quelt (English regional (Surrey)). β. Scottish 1800s quhult, 1800s whult. γ. English regional 1800s– twilt (east midlands and northern), 1800s– twult (Cumberland); Scottish 1900s– twilt (Orkney). Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: quilt v.¹ Etymology: Probably a transferred use of quilt v.¹ Compare quot. 1630 at quilt v.¹ 1b, and English regional to quilt one's jacket to beat (a person) soundly (recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. quilt v.¹ from the second half of the 19th cent. and later). 1. transitive. Chiefly regional. To beat or thrash (a person or animal). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] abeatOE beatc1000 dingc1300 dintc1300 bulka1400 batc1440 hampera1529 pommel1530 lump1546 pummel1548 bebatter1567 filch1567 peal-pelt1582 reverberate1599 vapulate1603 over-labour1632 polt1652 bepat1676 flog1801 quilt1822 meller1862 tund1885 massage1924 1822 Boxiana in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 461 Oliver, too, after being battered by every body else, quilted him easy. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. xix. 195 Your Cumberland critters,..the more you quilt them, the more they wont go. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. iii. 10 [He] quilted the old crocodile of a horse all the way. 1893 Forest Tithes 160 Leave off quiltin' me. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 120 An extensive vocabulary of fighting terms. Here are some of the best..roll into, vacuum, quilt and stoush a person. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 223/2 Quilt,..to beat, thrash. 1973 D. Stuart Morning Star, Evening Star 111 More than one bloke I've seen Joe quilt good and proper for trying to make a joke of it. †2. transitive. Cricket. To hit (a ball or balls) very hard, esp. for a sustained period of time; to punish (the bowling) (cf. punish v. 3d). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > types of batting guard1744 collar1859 quilt1866 paste1894 to farm the strike1901 1866 Baily's Monthly Mag. Feb. 92 Mr Lyttleton had an early taste of the lobs; these he quilted awfully. 1867 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 23) 69 That punishing bats-man, Mr. Lucas, ‘quilted’ the Colts' [printed Colts,] bowling tremendously. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket ii. 61 A batsman may get bowled first ball, a bowler may be quilted all over the field without getting a wicket. 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