skirtingn.

Brit.

/ˈskəːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈskərdɪŋ/

Forms: Also (Scottish in sense 4a) skifting.

Etymology: < skirt v.

†1. The action or fact of treating lightly or superficially. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness > action of

slubbering1582

slobbering1649

scambling1659

skirting1687

steamboating1826

scamping1862

slur1882

1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 164 A little Skirting now and then, upon the Narratives; and Bantering, betwixt Jest and Earnest, upon the Credit of the Witnesses.

2. Devon dialect. (See quot. 1796.)

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > light ploughing

spitting1594

stirree1733

skirting1796

hen-scratching1844

1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 144 For Skirting, the common share is used; but made, perhaps, somewhat wider than when it is used in the ordinary operation of plowing. In this mode of using the plow, little more than half the sward is pared off; turning the part raised, upon a line of unmoved turf [etc.].

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 115 When skirting is required, the wing of the share is considerably enlarged.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/3.

a. A border, edge, edging, or margin.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > part near the edges or borders

sidec1300

suburbc1384

confines1548

skirt1566

purlieus1577

outskirta1599

selvage1650

skirting1764

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border

lista700

edge1502

borderc1540

verge1573

skirt1576

brim?1610

limb1644

edging1684

bordure1691

bordage1860

bordering1862

rimming1868

skirting1872

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 88 The ploughman..leaving the skirtings near the hedges to be last finished.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1530 This latter boundary and skirting of Assam.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 171 Very young birds have rufous skirting of many feathers.

b. The lower part or skirt of a garment. Also plural.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > skirt

lapc897

quarter1501

dock1522

skirta1616

skirting1821

bell-skirt1907

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 68 With slop-frock suiting to a ploughman's taste, Its greasy skirtings twisted round his waist.

1829 Ld. Tennyson Timbuctoo 11 Wherefrom The snowy skirting of a garment hung.

c. Material used for the skirts of saddles; saddle-skirts collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 150 The smaller and lighter ones [sc. hides] are used for ‘skirting’ and for enamelling.

d. Cloth or material suitable for women's skirts or underskirts (see quot. 1882).

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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 clothing > for other specific items of clothing

bleauntc1314

hosing1340

tays1350

belting1567

gartering1571

footing1707

girdling1720

petticoating1738

lungi1779

Bath-coating1791

trousering1830

costuming1833

jacketing1847

skirting1882

kitenge1960

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 451/1 Skirting, strong thick woollen, worsted, cotton, or mixed fabrics, woven of certain dimensions, so as to be suitable in length and width for women's underskirts, and to preclude the necessity of making gores and seams.

a. Carpentry. The narrow boarding, edging of slate or cement, etc., placed vertically along the base of the wall of a room, or other place in a building, next to the floor. Also collective, material suitable for this. skirting radiator, a radiator running along a wall at the level of the skirting. Cf. skirting board n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for other parts

skiftingc1450

guttering1703

lintelling1703

skirting1825

stringing1833

spouting1838

trussing1840

undercloak1896

shuttering1898

screed1937

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > skirting board

skiftingc1450

baseboard1598

skirt-board1690

skirting boarda1756

base1757

skirting1825

washboard1828

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > radiator

radiator1838

rad1935

skirting radiator1970

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 603 Skirting, when wide, is also measured by the foot superficial.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 626 It [sc. slate] makes excellent skirtings of all descriptions.

1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 223 Then take stone, hewn and well jointed, and set it as a skifthing round the whole wall.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 119 The floor..is..finished with a neat skifting board..round the walls of the barn.

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 242 The walls were of polished citron-wood, heavily gilded round the skirting and edges.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §886. 414 There is a skirting round the room which must not be cut away.

1970 Home & Garden Mar. 94/4 Skirting radiators have a great deal to recommend them.

1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 16/6 (advt.) Superbly renovated cottage with full central heating, unobtrusive skirting radiators [etc.].

b. Nautical.

ΚΠ

1923 F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. ii. 43 The ports, skirtings and boats were painted black.

5. Australian. The trimmings or inferior portions of a fleece. Also skirting table, the table at which these are removed.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > fleece > [noun] > parts of > remnants or trimmings

lockeOE

skirt1851

skirting1880

1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 71/2 The roller-up, with a rapidity which is the result of long practice, separates the skirtings.

1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/7 At the ‘skirting table’ we will stand for a little while, and watch while the fleece..is opened out by the ‘roller’ and the inferior portions removed.

Draft additions 1993

A border or screen enclosing the space beneath a mobile home and concealing the wheels, plumbing, etc. North American.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan > part of

skirting1961

1961 Mobile Home Jrnl. 24 May (caption) Skirting is of the same siding material [aluminium].

1972 R. H. Nulsen Mobile Home Man. (rev. ed.) i. viii. 340 (caption) Skirting is a requirement in modern mobile home parks.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. 12/4 (advt.) Home includes 1 year warranty, skirting and awning.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

skirtingadj.

Etymology: < skirt v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskirting.

That skirts, in senses of the verb.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective]

circumjacent1490

circumstant1545

circumvoisin1548

environing?a1560

encompassing1571

ambient1572

succingent1578

embracing1590

circling1594

girdling1598

circumdant1600

rounding1600

all round?1611

circumferent1620

circumsistent1625

circuiting1632

circulating1632

encircling1632

surrounding1637

begirting1645

circumambient1648

circumstantial1650

girding1658

skirtingc1735

entwining1737

circumadjacent1780

belting1808

engirdling1843

encyclic1850

engirding1852

zoning1853

roundaboutc1860

begirding1877

wraparound1957

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > forming an edge or border

borderinga1676

skirtingc1735

siding1850

fringing1888

c1735 W. Harte Eulogius in Poems (1810) 383/1 On skirting heights thick stood the clust'ring vine.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited v. 77 Beyond the city..a black skirting outline ran along a ridge of high ground.

1845 P. Nicholson Carpentry in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 237/2 Every supporting bar ought to be fixed at each extremity to opposite parts of the skirting frame.

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 131 Skirting parties meantime scoured the country far and near.

Derivatives

ˈskirtingly adv.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adverb] > round the edge

skirtingly1882

1882 R. A. Proctor in Longman's Mag. Dec. 184 The earth can pass through, centrally or skirtingly, but a very minute proportion of the meteor systems.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	skirting
释义	skirtingn. Brit. /ˈskəːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskərdɪŋ/ Forms: Also (Scottish in sense 4a) skifting. Etymology: < skirt v. †1. The action or fact of treating lightly or superficially. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness > action of slubbering1582 slobbering1649 scambling1659 skirting1687 steamboating1826 scamping1862 slur1882 1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 164 A little Skirting now and then, upon the Narratives; and Bantering, betwixt Jest and Earnest, upon the Credit of the Witnesses. 2. Devon dialect. (See quot. 1796.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > light ploughing spitting1594 stirree1733 skirting1796 hen-scratching1844 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 144 For Skirting, the common share is used; but made, perhaps, somewhat wider than when it is used in the ordinary operation of plowing. In this mode of using the plow, little more than half the sward is pared off; turning the part raised, upon a line of unmoved turf [etc.]. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 115 When skirting is required, the wing of the share is considerably enlarged. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/3. 3. a. A border, edge, edging, or margin. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > part near the edges or borders sidec1300 suburbc1384 confines1548 skirt1566 purlieus1577 outskirta1599 selvage1650 skirting1764 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border lista700 edge1502 borderc1540 verge1573 skirt1576 brim?1610 limb1644 edging1684 bordure1691 bordage1860 bordering1862 rimming1868 skirting1872 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 88 The ploughman..leaving the skirtings near the hedges to be last finished. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1530 This latter boundary and skirting of Assam. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 171 Very young birds have rufous skirting of many feathers. b. The lower part or skirt of a garment. Also plural. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > skirt lapc897 quarter1501 dock1522 skirta1616 skirting1821 bell-skirt1907 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 68 With slop-frock suiting to a ploughman's taste, Its greasy skirtings twisted round his waist. 1829 Ld. Tennyson Timbuctoo 11 Wherefrom The snowy skirting of a garment hung. c. Material used for the skirts of saddles; saddle-skirts collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 150 The smaller and lighter ones [sc. hides] are used for ‘skirting’ and for enamelling. d. Cloth or material suitable for women's skirts or underskirts (see quot. 1882). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for other specific items of clothing bleauntc1314 hosing1340 tays1350 belting1567 gartering1571 footing1707 girdling1720 petticoating1738 lungi1779 Bath-coating1791 trousering1830 costuming1833 jacketing1847 skirting1882 kitenge1960 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 451/1 Skirting, strong thick woollen, worsted, cotton, or mixed fabrics, woven of certain dimensions, so as to be suitable in length and width for women's underskirts, and to preclude the necessity of making gores and seams. 4. a. Carpentry. The narrow boarding, edging of slate or cement, etc., placed vertically along the base of the wall of a room, or other place in a building, next to the floor. Also collective, material suitable for this. skirting radiator, a radiator running along a wall at the level of the skirting. Cf. skirting board n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for other parts skiftingc1450 guttering1703 lintelling1703 skirting1825 stringing1833 spouting1838 trussing1840 undercloak1896 shuttering1898 screed1937 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > skirting board skiftingc1450 baseboard1598 skirt-board1690 skirting boarda1756 base1757 skirting1825 washboard1828 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > radiator radiator1838 rad1935 skirting radiator1970 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 603 Skirting, when wide, is also measured by the foot superficial. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 626 It [sc. slate] makes excellent skirtings of all descriptions. 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 223 Then take stone, hewn and well jointed, and set it as a skifthing round the whole wall. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 119 The floor..is..finished with a neat skifting board..round the walls of the barn. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 242 The walls were of polished citron-wood, heavily gilded round the skirting and edges. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §886. 414 There is a skirting round the room which must not be cut away. 1970 Home & Garden Mar. 94/4 Skirting radiators have a great deal to recommend them. 1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 16/6 (advt.) Superbly renovated cottage with full central heating, unobtrusive skirting radiators [etc.]. b. Nautical. ΚΠ 1923 F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. ii. 43 The ports, skirtings and boats were painted black. 5. Australian. The trimmings or inferior portions of a fleece. Also skirting table, the table at which these are removed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > fleece > [noun] > parts of > remnants or trimmings lockeOE skirt1851 skirting1880 1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 71/2 The roller-up, with a rapidity which is the result of long practice, separates the skirtings. 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/7 At the ‘skirting table’ we will stand for a little while, and watch while the fleece..is opened out by the ‘roller’ and the inferior portions removed. Draft additions 1993 A border or screen enclosing the space beneath a mobile home and concealing the wheels, plumbing, etc. North American. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan > part of skirting1961 1961 Mobile Home Jrnl. 24 May (caption) Skirting is of the same siding material [aluminium]. 1972 R. H. Nulsen Mobile Home Man. (rev. ed.) i. viii. 340 (caption) Skirting is a requirement in modern mobile home parks. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. 12/4 (advt.) Home includes 1 year warranty, skirting and awning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). skirtingadj. Etymology: < skirt v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskirting. That skirts, in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] circumjacent1490 circumstant1545 circumvoisin1548 environing?a1560 encompassing1571 ambient1572 succingent1578 embracing1590 circling1594 girdling1598 circumdant1600 rounding1600 all round?1611 circumferent1620 circumsistent1625 circuiting1632 circulating1632 encircling1632 surrounding1637 begirting1645 circumambient1648 circumstantial1650 girding1658 skirtingc1735 entwining1737 circumadjacent1780 belting1808 engirdling1843 encyclic1850 engirding1852 zoning1853 roundaboutc1860 begirding1877 wraparound1957 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > forming an edge or border borderinga1676 skirtingc1735 siding1850 fringing1888 c1735 W. Harte Eulogius in Poems (1810) 383/1 On skirting heights thick stood the clust'ring vine. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited v. 77 Beyond the city..a black skirting outline ran along a ridge of high ground. 1845 P. Nicholson Carpentry in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 237/2 Every supporting bar ought to be fixed at each extremity to opposite parts of the skirting frame. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 131 Skirting parties meantime scoured the country far and near. Derivatives ˈskirtingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adverb] > round the edge skirtingly1882 1882 R. A. Proctor in Longman's Mag. Dec. 184 The earth can pass through, centrally or skirtingly, but a very minute proportion of the meteor systems. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1687adj.c1735
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