- present participle of skirt.
skirting
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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
If nocturnes are the center of Ms. Tomes’s book, night music, broadly conceived, is the topic skirting the edges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
The fleet is made up of ageing tankers that carry Russia's oil and gas around the world, skirting Western restrictions.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
They’d march north for a time, then east, then north again, skirting the villages, no one talking except in whispers.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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 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
Goods manufactured under this classification include cotton warp checks and mixtures; all wool homespuns, mixture coatings and suitings, storm skirtings, rainproof cloths.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
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
