Middle English Dictionary Entry
kilten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | kilten v. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI kilting & kjalta; Dan. kilte to tie up, gird up. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To tuck up (clothes), gird; ppl. kilted in, fig. endowed with (power).
Associated quotations
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)69a : To kylte: subfarcinare, suffarcinare, succingere.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)64.7 : Here vs, god, oure hele, hope of all the endes of erth and in the see fere..Graythand hilles in thi vertu, kiltid [L accintus] in powere.