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Quilting   /kwˈɪltɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Quilt  v. t.  (past & past part. quilted; pres. part. quilting)  
1.
To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
2.
To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
3.
To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.


noun
Quilting  n.  
1.
The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.
2.
A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.
3.
The material used for making quilts.
4.
(Naut.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.





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"Quilting" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Sometimes quilting parties were held in the various cabins on the plantation. Everyone would assist in making the winter bed covering for one family one night and the next night for some other family, and so on until ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 3 • Works Projects Administration
... your bed now. I've put a quilt upon you I'm after quilting a while since with my own two hands, and you'd best stretch out now for your sleep, and may God give you a good rest till I call you in the morning when ...
— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge
... of the flag and the bear and other details. The work began early the next day and my hands were busy hemming the sides and ends while sister drew the shape of the bear and cut it out of brown drilling. We got our quilting frame and stretched the flag on it, and when it was all nicely stretched we laid the bear on the white surface and began to get it into the right place. Then the basting began so that nothing should go wrong in putting ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson
... like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter. He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and, having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving


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