subs. (obsolete American).—A patchworking-party with a spree at the end: see BEE.
1825. NEAL, Brother Jonathan, I. 7. ‘Where is Edith?’ said he, at last. ‘Gone to a QUILTIN.’
1843. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Courtship, 125. My time is tuck up with so many things … goin to QUILTENS and partys of one kind another.
1847. ROBB, Streaks of Squatter Life, 94. As sharp as lightnin’, and as persuadin’ as a young gal at a QUILTIN’.
