Usually means: Traditional medieval garment, usually long.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word kirtle:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. kirtle: Merriam-Webster
  2. kirtle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kirtle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kirtle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kirtle: Vocabulary.com
  6. kirtle: Wordnik
  7. kirtle: Wiktionary
  8. kirtle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. kirtle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. kirtle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Kirtle, kirtle: Dictionary.com
  12. kirtle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Kirtle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Kirtle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. kirtle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. kirtle: Rhymezone
  17. Kirtle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. kirtle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. kirtle: FreeDictionary.org
  20. kirtle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. kirtle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. kirtle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kirtle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kirtle: The Folk File

(Note: See kirtles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kirtle)

noun:  A knee-length tunic.
noun:  A short jacket.
noun:  A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.
verb:  (transitive) To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle.

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