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skirt

  [skurt]
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–noun
1. the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
2. a one-piece garment extending downward from the waist and not joined between the legs, worn esp. by women and girls.
3. some part resembling or suggesting the skirt of a garment, as the flared lip of a bell or a protective and ornamental cloth strip covering the legs of furniture.
4. a small leather flap on each side of a saddle, covering the metal bar from which the stirrup hangs.
5. Building Trades.
a. baseboard (def. 1).
b. apron (def. 13).
6. Also called apron. Furniture.
a. a flat horizontal brace set immediately beneath the seat of a chair, chest of drawers, or the like, to strengthen the legs.
b. Also called bed, frieze. a flat brace or support immediately beneath a tabletop.
7. Usually, skirts. the bordering, marginal, or outlying part of a place, group, etc.; the outskirts.
8. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a woman or girl.
9. Rocketry. an outer part of a rocket or missile that provides structural support or houses such systems as avionics or gyroscopes.
–verb (used with object)
10. to lie on or along the border of: The hills skirt the town.
11. to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function.
12. to pass along or around the border or edge of: Traffic skirts the town.
13. to avoid, go around the edge of, or keep distant from (something that is controversial, risky, etc.): The senator skirted the issue.
14. to remove low-grade wool and foreign matter from (the outer edge of fleece).
–verb (used without object)
15. to be or lie on or along the edge of something.
16. to move along or around the border of something.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME skirte < ON skyrta shirt

Related forms:
skirtless, adjective
skirtlike, adjective

Synonyms:
13. evade, shun, circle, bypass.
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a⋅pron

  [ey-pruhn]
–noun
1. a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing: a kitchen apron.
2. Anglican Church. a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.
3. a metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.
4. a continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.
5. (in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.
6. a paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.
7. a broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.
8. Civil Engineering.
a. any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water.
b. a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.
9. the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.
10. Furniture. skirt (def. 6).
11. the outer border of a green of a golf course.
12. the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.
13. Also called skirt. a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill.
14. a strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing; counterflashing.
15. the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.
16. Nautical. (in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.
17. Geology. a deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.
18. the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.
19. a structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration: a high fence surrounded by a wire apron buried in the ground.
–verb (used with object)
20. to put an apron on; furnish with an apron.
21. to surround in the manner of an apron: The inner city is aproned by low-cost housing.
Origin:
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 8; ME napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < MF naperon, equiv. to nape tablecloth (< L mappa napkin; cf. map ) + -ron dim. suffix

Related forms:
a⋅pron⋅like, adjective

base⋅board

  [beys-bawrd, -bohrd]
–noun
1. Also called mopboard, skirt. a board forming the foot of an interior wall.
2. a board forming the base of anything.
Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; base 1 + board
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skirt   (skûrt)   
n.  

  1. The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.

  2. A garment hanging from the waist and worn by women and girls.

  3. A part or attachment resembling the skirt of a garment, especially:

    1. One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.

    2. The lower outer section of a rocket vehicle.

    3. A flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle.

    4. A piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection.

  4. An outer edge; a border or margin: a base camp on the skirt of the mountain.

  5. skirts The edge, as of a town; the outskirts.

  6. Offensive Slang A woman.

v.   skirt·ed, skirt·ing, skirts

v.   tr.

  1. To lie along or form the edge of; border: the creek that skirts our property.

  2. To pass around rather than across or through: changed their course to skirt the storm.

  3. To pass close to; miss narrowly: The bullet skirted an artery.

  4. To evade, as by circumlocution: skirted the controversial issue.

v.   intr.
To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skyrta, shirt; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
skirt

  1. n.
    a woman. : Some skirt comes up to me and asks where the police station is.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

apron 
1461, faulty separation of a napron (1307), from O.Fr. naperon, dim. of nappe "cloth," from L. mappa "napkin" (cf. adder, umpire). Napron was still found as late as late 16c. Symbolic of "wife's business" from 1611. Apron-string tenure was in ref. to property held in virtue of one's wife, or during her lifetime only.
"Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string." [Anne Brontë, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848]

skirt  (n.)
c.1300, "lower part of a woman's dress," from O.N. skyrta "shirt," see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (cf. Low Ger. cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded 1470, and the verb meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1623. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1560; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: apron
Pronunciation: 'A-pr&n, -p&rn
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a garment usually of cloth or plastic usuallytied around the waist and used especially to protect clothing
2 : an anatomical structure that resembles an apron; especially : HOTTENTOT APRON
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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