shirt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

   He went to the mall to buy shirts his size.

2. 2
   verb

   To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

   1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I. Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.

3. 3
   noun

   a garment worn on the upper half of the body

4. 4
   verb

   put a shirt on

5. 5
   noun

   An interior lining in a blast furnace.

6. 6
   noun

   A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Etymology

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”). Doublet of skirt via Old Norse; further related to short.