Definitions for skirting

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skirting skirt·ing

Spelling: [skur-ting]

IPA: /ˈskɜr tɪŋ/

Skirting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in skirting (giiknrst).

Definitions for skirting

noun

1. fabric for making skirts.
2. Often, skirtings. low-grade wool and foreign matter removed from the outer edges of fleece.
3. Also called skirting board. British. baseboard (def 1).
4. the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
5. a one-piece garment extending downward from the waist and not joined between the legs, worn especially by women and girls.
6. some part resembling or suggesting the skirt of a garment, as the flared lip of a bell or a protective and ornamental cloth strip covering the legs of furniture.
7. a small leather flap on each side of a saddle, covering the metal bar from which the stirrup hangs.
8. Building Trades. baseboard (def 1). apron (def 13).
9. Also called apron. Furniture. a flat horizontal brace set immediately beneath the seat of a chair, chest of drawers, or the like, to strengthen the legs. Also called bed, frieze. a flat brace or support immediately beneath a tabletop.
10. Usually, skirts. the bordering, marginal, or outlying part of a place, group, etc.; the outskirts.
11. Older Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a woman or girl:
12. Rocketry. an outer part of a rocket or missile that provides structural support or houses such systems as avionics or gyroscopes.

verb (used with object)

1. to lie on or along the border of:
2. to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function.
3. to pass along or around the border or edge of:
4. to avoid, go around the edge of, or keep distant from (something that is controversial, risky, etc.):
5. to remove low-grade wool and foreign matter from (the outer edge of fleece).

verb (used without object)

1. to be or lie on or along the edge of something.
2. to move along or around the border of something.

Origin of skirting

First recorded in 1680-90; skirt + -ing¹

Examples for skirting

Senior officials normally observe a longstanding political taboo by skirting around such tales of torment.

Continuing their inspection, they went on, skirting the hillside.

We ran along the road, skirting the edge of the little town.

skirting the edge of the cone they emerged from the woods and came to the border of a village.

The old dame entered, skirting warily the vicinity of the "madman."

The story is Lardner at his best, skirting the fence between sentimentality and cynicism and achieving pathos.

Then skirting a big beadle in blue, policemen, and loungers, I reached the box-office.

After skirting the covert, she turned homewards by a pathway through the trees.

From an overseas haven to a TARP gift to Nascar, companies are skirting the IRS.

I started back at the gallop, skirting the side of the valley.