skirting

Adjective
Synonyms: encircling

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. being all around the edges; enclosing“his encircling arms”“the room's skirting board needs painting”Synonyms: encircling
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Skirting \Skirt"ing\, n.

1.(Arch.) A skirting board. [R.] [1913 Webster]

2.Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. [1913 Webster]

Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard. [1913 Webster]

Skirt \Skirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]

1.To cover with a skirt; to surround. [1913 Webster]

Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

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