Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kilt \Kilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kilted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Kilting}.]
   To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. [Scot.] --Sir W.
   Scott.

Kilting \Kilt"ing\, n. (Dressmaking)
   A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each
   plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the
   preceding one.