kilting

[KILT, v.] A term employed in dre making to denote an arrangement of flat single plaits, or pleats, placed closely side by side, so that the double edge of the plait on the upper side shall lie half over the preceding one on the inside, each showing about one inch, and hiding one inch. *kim, a . [Wel.cam.) Crooked. kim-kam, adv. Crookedly, awry, wrong. "I heard my father say that everything then was turned upside down, and that in his remembrance all went kim -kam."-P. Holland: Plutarch, p. 373. Kim, s. [An abbreviation of Kim me ridge (q. v.).] (See etym.) kim-bō, *kim-bow, adj. [Wel.cam=crooked, and Eng. bow.] Crooked, bent, arched, curved. "The kimbo handles seem with bear's-foot carv'd, And never yet to table have been serv'd." Dryden: Virgil; Eclog. iii. 67. To set or place the arms akimbo : To set the hands on the hips with the elbows projecting out ward. "He observed them edging toward one another to whisper, so that John was forced to sit with his arms akimbo , to keep them asunder."- Arbuthnot : Hist. of John Bull. *kim-bō, *kěm-bō, v . t . [KIMBO, a.] To place akimbo; to crook. "He kemboed his arms."-Richardson: Sir C. Grand is on, iv. 288.