skirting

The comments came as transit through Hormuz has dropped significantly, with Iran targeting ships it accuses of skirting its preferred route through Iranian waters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 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

China this summer sent a cargo ship to the Polish port of Gdansk by skirting the North Pole, a route twice as fast as travel times using the Suez Canal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Skilled at creeping under floorboards and behind skirting boards, they infest houses.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

They tapped the walls and sounded the skirtings, but without success.

From The Mystery of the Four Fingers by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

Coarse cloth of linen and wool used as skirtings by the British peasantry.

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

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

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

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The country about this Fort is almost entirely prairie, producing along the banks of the river and streams only, slight skirtings of timber....

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell