Definition of "kilties" []

• Plural form of kiltie. (noun)

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• "He took a week to relieve Lucknow, feeling his way in along the route our message had suggested, battering the pandies with his artillery, and only turning his kilties and Sikhs on them when he had to."
• "A rabble of prisoners -- Jägers, Grenadiers, Uhlans, what-nots -- came trudging down the road, an unshorn, dishevelled herd of cut-throats, propelled by a brace of diminutive kilties, who paused occasionally to treat them to snatches of flings and to hoot triumphantly."
• "Sixty of the kilties paid with their lives the price of this premature shell, including the Sergeant."