quilt

noun

1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.

   “My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.”

2. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
3. A quilted skirt worn by women.
4. (figuratively)Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.

   “Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.”

verb

1. To construct a quilt.
2. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.

   “Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.”

   “Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.”

3. (UK, obsolete, slang)To beat or thrash.

   “I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.”