Definitions for quilts

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quilts quilt

Spelling: [kwilt]

IPA: /kwɪlt/

Quilts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in quilts (ilqstu).

Definitions for quilts

noun

1. a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
2. anything quilted or resembling a quilt.
3. a bedspread or counterpane, especially a thick one.
4. Obsolete. a mattress.

verb (used with object)

1. to stitch together (two pieces of cloth and a soft interlining), usually in an ornamental pattern.
2. to sew up between pieces of material.
3. to pad or line with material.

verb (used without object)

1. to make quilts or quilted work.

Origin of quilts

1250-1300; Middle English quilte Old French cuilte Latin culcita mattress, cushion

Examples for quilts

She put the orphan at the foot of the bunk, drew the quilt over it and set to work.

"Give her another blanket or quilt, then," said her husband.

With this flurry of sewing and stuffing, perhaps the 2012 candidates will now know to pursue the quilt vote.

Pinckney didn't punch the mattress or turn up his nose at the quilt patterns.

I never was so tickled in my life as when he bought that quilt.

She opened the lid of her chest and brought out a quilt, then another, and another.

quilt and cushions were pushed into a corner for later airing.

When my mother threatened to give away my baby clothes, I cut them up and made my sister a quilt for her birthday.

You can put him on a quilt on the floor, until after luncheon, and then you must take him home.

One quilt expert weighed his opinions about the installation.