Quilt

Definition: Quilt

Quilt

Noun

1. Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.

Verb

1. Stitch or sew together; of textiles.

2. Create by stitching together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quilt" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Quilt

Covering

Coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore.

Crosswords: Quilt

Manx (quilt ), Portuguese (filibeg).

Like a quilt. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

A Crazy Quilt of Travel (1924)

Quilt (1996)

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

A Quilt of Many Cultures: South India (1990)

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Feathers That Fly: How to Design, Mark, and Machine Quilt Feather Motifs (reference)

• Scrap Quilt Celebration (reference)

• Cooking from Quilt Country: Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens (reference)

• New Recipes from Quilt Country: More Food & Folkways from the Amish & Mennonites (reference)

• Curves in Motion: Quilt Designs & Techniques (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Make an American Quilt (reference)

• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (reference)

• Faith Ringgold:Last Story Quilt (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• American Quilt 1967-1974 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Boppy Original - Word Search Quilt (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

People looking at AIDS quilt. Credit: CDC.

Velma Cardwell works on a quilt at the Cabin Creek Quilters in Charleston, WVA. Credit: USDA.

Dallie Short a quilter with Cabin Creek Quilts in Charlestion, WVA., inspects a finished quilt. Credit: USDA.

Gladys Hill works on a quilt in the recreation area of the Ashe Center for the Aging in Jefferson, NC. Credit: USDA.

Four women working on a patchwork quilt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ladies of the Helping Hand society working on quilt. Gage County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bedroom of tenant farmer living near Warner, Oklahoma. Notice American flag quilt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Making a quilt in Scranton, Iowa, home. The ladies will give the quilt to a needy family. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Calvin Coolidge. Shoes, bathrobe and quilt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She brought the corner of the quilt over his head like a cowl and pulled it down over his face

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Trade

Argentina

Some of the users are Sharp, Maxon, Acropolis, Canon, TDK, JVC, Audinac, Pioneer, Rates, Audio Logic, Zenith, Daewo, Talent, Goldstar, Panashiba, Nashiba, Le Roy, Carandache, Baume & Mercier, Corum, Tag Heuer, Movado, Caterpillar, Valvoline, Komatsu, Cummins, Coleman, John Deere, Home, Litte, Snapper, Asia, Kia, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan, Case, SKF, Fag Steyr, Armstrong, Stanetex Tile, Multicolor Prem, Abco Haldex, Sigma Paximat, York, Autobombas Ford, GM, American Lafrance, Venus Carpet, Kalpakian Floget, Blue Diamond, Stronger, Yale, Skoda, Cessna, Bayer, Nike, Topper, Avia, Jovi, Canson, Stabilo, La Serenisima, Sancor, Ceres, Goodyear, Eastman, Digitar, Tecno Steel, Dallas, Cristaleria Bohemia, Heidelberg, Polar, Hempel, Crosley, Waltek, Exenel, Printex, Darling, Wega, R.N., Tecno 1, Medtronic, Akroplast, BRD, Lostra 2100 Fume, Care Quilt, Rae Flex, Zwiling, Nippon, Kaijo, Ki, Trinity, Asme, Dupont, Siderar, Sanitron, Band Ai, Alcoa, Samsonite, Daihatsu, Rhone Poulenc, Asics, Etam, Grimoldi, Boating Shoes, Sthil, Subaru, Daewoo, Cadbury de Argentina, Cafes La Virginia, Construcciones Metalurgicas Zanello, Electrolux Argentina, Ilko Argentina, Impsat, Ledesma Mattel Argentina, Multicolor Argentina, Papelera Tucuman, Pecom NEC, Philco Ushuaia, Phillips Argentina, Ralston Purina Argentina, Spazio Casa Simmons de Argentina. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "quilt": alhambra quilt ♦ continental quilt ♦ crazy quilt ♦ down quilt ♦ multiple surface quilt ♦ patchwork quilt ♦ single surface quilt. Additional references.

Beginning with "quilt": quilt-makers, quilt-making.

Ending with "quilt": patchwork-quilt.

Albanian

qep nën astar, mbush me tegela, jorgan. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لحاف (counterpane), ‏حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), ‏زغب (coma, fluff, fuzz, hairy, nap, pile, plumule, pubescence), ‏ريش (feathering), ‏بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, pad, paunch, redouble, stomach, underlay, venter). (various references)

Blackfoot

miá'nistsípssaakssin. (various references)

Bulgarian 

юрган (comfort), компилирам (compile, throw together), ватенка (quilted jacket), ватирана материя (quilting), ватирам (bolster, pad, wad), покривка за легло (bedspread, counterpane, sheet-sham), подпълвам (fill up, pack out, rat, wad), подплатявам с памук (wad). (various references)

Chinese 

被子 . (various references)

Czech

prošívat, prošívaná pokrývka, deka (blanket, cover). (various references)

Danish

vattaeppe (duvet), stukket vatteret taeppe, edderdunsdyne (duvet), dundyne (duvet). (various references)

Dutch

stikken (choke, stitch). (various references)

Esperanto

stebi (stitch). (various references)

Faeroese

seyma afturíaftur (stitch). (various references)

Farsi 

مثل لحاف دوختن , لحاف (Coverlet), بالاپوش (Coverlet, Mantle, Overall, Wrapper). (various references)

Finnish

vuodepeite (bedspread, counterpane), tikata (stitch). (various references)

French

courtepointe, édredon. (various references)

German

Steppdecke (comforter, continental quilt), wattieren (pad, wad), steppen (quilting, steppes, stitch, tap dance). (various references)

Greek 

πάπλωμα (blanket, coverlet, duvet). (various references)

Hebrew 

כסת (bolster, cushion, featherbed, pillow). (various references)

Hungarian

paplan (duvet), vattapaplan. (various references)

Indonesian

menyulam. (various references)

Italian

trapunta (eiderdown), piumino (coverlet, down, eiderdown, feather duster, padded jacket). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

衾 (bedding), 掛け蒲団 (comforter), 掛け物 (hanging scroll), キリル文字 (Cyrillic character, kill, Kirchhoff, Kirin, quilting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きん (a little, bacillus, bacterium, ban, be equal to, be fit for, bedding, cloth, germ, gold, gold general, napkin, prohibition, serve, small quantity, unit of weight ~600g), ふすま (bedding, mash, sliding screen, wheat bran), かけぶとん (bed cover, comforter, coverlet), かけもの (hanging scroll), キルト . (various references)

Korean 

누비이불. (various references)

Manx

quiltal, quilt, jannoo curleid jeh. (various references)

Norwegian

vatteppe, lappeteppe. (various references)

Papago

che'ewhuithadag. (various references)

Pig Latin

iltquay.(various references)

Portuguese

pespontar (backstitch, stitch), forrar (feather, line, serve), estofar (pad, stuff, upholster, wad), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lather, lay into, maltreat, maul, paste, pommel, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop), edredão (duvet, eiderdown, feather bed), colcha (bedspread, coverlet), cobertura acolchoada, acolchoar (bolster, pad, stuff, upholster, uphoster), acolchoado (bedspread, comforter, padded, upholsterer). (various references)

Romanian

vãtui (leveret, pad, wad), trage la maşinã, plapumã (blanket, counterpane, coverlet, puff), mindir, matlasa (stuff), macat, cuverturã matlasatã, coase la maşinã. (various references)

Russian 

стегать....стеганое одеяло, стегать (flog), стеганое одеяло, компилировать (compile). (various references)

Sepedi

kobo ya mafofa. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

puniti (fill, load, prime, stuff), prošivati (sew, stitch), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), jorgan (comforter). (various references)

Spanish

edredon (continental quilt, duvet, eiderdown, feather bed), edredón (comforter, duvet, eiderdown, puff), colcha (bedcover, bedspread, blanket), acolchar (pad, upholster, wad). (various references)

Swedish

sängtäcke. (various references)

Turkish

yorgan yapmak, yorgan gibi dikmek, yorgan (comforter), pamuk doldurup dikmek, içine yün doldurup dikmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

syramak (circle, sew a blanket, whirl), яorgan. (various references)

Ukrainian

стьобати (stitch), стьобана ковдра (counterpane), компілювати (compile, put together, throw together), зашивати у підкладку одягу, пікейне покривало, піке (nosedive, quilting). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mền bông, mền đắp, chăn (rug, wrap). (various references)

culcita. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quilt": quilted, quilter, quilters, quilting, quiltings, quilts. (additional references)

Words ending with "quilt": bedquilt. (additional references)

Words containing "quilt": bedquilts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quilt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquil, cilt, ciltt, kuilt, kulit, muilt, qali, Qelt, Qeziot, Qift, Qila, qilt, qoil, quald, qualf, qualg, qualk, qualmt, Qualo, qualp, qualt, queal, quelk, quelp, quelt, quemt, quept, quiat, quidt, quiel, quift, quil, Quila, quilb, quild, quile, quilf, quilk, quilla, quille, quillo, quilm, quiln, quilp, Quilty, quin, quiol, quiot, quipt, quith, quitle, quitt, quity, quiwl, quixt, qulid, qulis, quol, quole, quolt, quril, qwilt, squilt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: litu, quit.

-2 letters: lit, til, tui.

-3 letters: it, li, ti, ut.

+1 letter: quilts.

+2 letters: aliquot, liquate, quality, quietly, quillet, quilted, quilter, quintal, tequila.

+3 letters: aliquant, aliquots, bedquilt, equality, liquated, liquates, miquelet, quaintly, quantile, quartile, quillets, quilters, quilting, quintals, quintile, requital, tequilas, tranquil.

+4 letters: acquittal, bedquilts, clinquant, cliquiest, equitable, equitably, liquating, liquation, liquidate, liquidity, loquacity, miquelets, obliquity, piquantly, qualities, qualmiest, quantiles, quartiles, quiltings, quintiles, quintuple, quitclaim, quodlibet, requitals, unquietly.