QUILTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quilting mean? 

• QUILTING (noun)
  The noun QUILTING has 2 senses:

1. stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design

2. a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric

  Familiarity information: QUILTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUILTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

embroidery stitch; sewing stitch (a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather)

Derivation:

quilt (create by stitching together)

quilt (stitch or sew together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

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)

The captain, hearing me utter these absurdities, concluded I was raving; however (I suppose to pacify me) he promised to give order as I desired, and going upon deck, sent some of his men down into my closet, whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up all my goods, and stripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, and bedstead, being screwed to the floor, were much damaged by the ignorance of the seamen, who tore them up by force.

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