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🛏️ A bed cover 🧵 To sew layers
to quilt

to quilt

18 3.2
To sew layers of fabric together with filling to make a warm blanket
  • verb
  • /kwɪlt/
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  • A while later, having broken the pattern, she would be back quilting again.

Or you know, I don't like all that country Lacy Bunny nonsense stuff you quilt.

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Examples

  • Youth girls helped Emma Yoder quilt Wednesday evening.

    Academic text (2016)

  • ANNA: All my family's women quilt.

    How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

  • If anyone asks, we were quilting.

    Women Talking (2022)

  • Each guide was happy to talk about quilting with Jennifer and Susan.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Once these pieces were sewn together, they would do all the hand quilting and add the final binding.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • There are a lot of church groups who've quilted for years, nonstop.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Dear Justine, because of you I'll be quilting the Retail Rodeo.

    The Good Girl (2002)

  • And then as I was quilting, I had this really cool brocade fabric and I quilted that, but it didn't seem enough.

  • She loves to quilt blankets for her grandchildren during the winter.

  • Every summer, they gather to quilt colorful patterns for the local charity.

Synonyms

to sew
vsto quilt
242 1.0

Join, fix and make clothes and other things made of cloth using a needle and thread or a machine

is limited to joining padded layers for warm coverings rather than general fabric work
to sew together
vsto quilt
7 2.3

To join two pieces of cloth with a needle and thread

is specific to joining padded fabric layers to make a warm bed covering

Antonyms

to unsew
8.4

To remove stitches from cloth or clothing

Compounds

patchwork quilt
2 3.3

A bed cover made by sewing different pieces of cloth together

crazy quilt
1 6.0

A bed cover made from many different small pieces of fabric sewn together

continental quilt
  • US
3.7

A thick soft bed covering filled with feathers or warm fibers used instead of sheets

How Warm

to insulate
32 4.3
to quilt
18 3.2
to wooled
8.4
to pad
39 3.1
to line
206 5.1
to cover
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

quilt infinitive
quilted past
quilted past participle
quilting present participle
quilts third person singular

Etymology

Quilt comes from the old Latin word culcita, which meant 'mattress' or a 'stuffed bag'. So to quilt is to sew layers and padding together to make a warm, padded cover.