QUILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quilt mean? 

• QUILT (noun)
  The noun QUILT has 1 sense:

1. bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

  Familiarity information: QUILT used as a noun is very rare.

• QUILT (verb)
  The verb QUILT has 2 senses:

1. stitch or sew together

2. create by stitching together

  Familiarity information: QUILT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

comfort; comforter; puff; quilt

Hypernyms ("quilt" is a kind of...):

bed clothing; bedclothes; bedding (coverings that are used on a bed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quilt"):

continental quilt; duvet; eiderdown (a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider)

patchwork; patchwork quilt (a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together)

Derivation:

quilt (create by stitching together)

quilt (stitch or sew together)

• QUILT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quilt    ... he / she / it quilts   
Past simple: quilted   
Past participle: quilted   
-ing form: quilting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stitch or sew together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

quilt the skirt

Hypernyms (to "quilt" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

"Quilt" entails doing...:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

quilt (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together)

quilting (stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create by stitching together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "quilt" is one way to...):

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

"Quilt" entails doing...:

bolster; pad (add padding to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They quilt the cape

Derivation:

quilt (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together)

quilting (stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design)

 Context examples 

The girl reached the plate to him, but the king’s son threw off the quilt, and said: You old sinner, why did you want to kill me?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Five hundred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Turning restlessly, she drew the bedclothes round her; my elbow, resting on a corner of the quilt, fixed it down: she was at once irritated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But he threw quilts and pillows up in the air, got out and said: “Now anyone who likes, may drive,” and lay down by his fire, and slept till it was day.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The girl had been so careful as to put the quilt of her baby’s bed into it, for me to lie down on.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

While I tried to devour my tears, a fit of coughing seized Helen; it did not, however, wake the nurse; when it was over, she lay some minutes exhausted; then she whispered—Jane, your little feet are bare; lie down and cover yourself with my quilt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two hundred sempstresses were employed to make me shirts, and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest and coarsest kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest was some degrees finer than lawn.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)