skirting

They moved between wildlife strongholds, skirting areas containing major human obstacles, including the capital, Lusaka, and heavily developed industrial areas.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The vehicles drove right over his fields at speed, tearing up the crops and skirting the fence by the family's garden.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

With the leak's Maryland location upriver from Washington, much of it found its way to the waters skirting the US capital.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

The two-lane loop threads its way among forests and A-frames and cabins, skirting the waters of June Lake and the lake’s village, which is only a few blocks long.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Even from this distance, the lake’s spray is visible skirting off its surface from the gusts.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Mouldings for panelling, cornices, skirtings, &c., are cut by revolving cutters or chisels, filed to any desired shape and case-hardened.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

The tops of the skirtings, the mouldings of the doors, the sashes of the windows and the corners of the floors were thick with the accumulated dust of years.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

You do the doors and windows, and let 'im do the cupboards and skirtings.'

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Plugs.—Prepare and tar for pisé-builder 3 in. by 1 in. well-seasoned softwood plugs, 15 in. long, as per detail, for skirtings, picture- and chair-rail, to be inserted 3 ft. apart.

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis

The walls of the staircase are covered with a sort of plaster called stucco, but closely resembling road-scrapings: the skirtings are of pitch-pine, the balusters of the same material.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper