A sort of brown tow trowsers formerly worn in New England, very large, and reaching just below the knees.
The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.--Margaret, p. 22.
·noun ·pl A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. ...
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