1. any of numerous textile patterns consisting of stripes of varying widths and colors crossed at right angles against a solid background, each forming a distinctive design worn by the members of a scottish clan.
2. A twilled wool fabric or garment having such a pattern.
3. A plaid fabric.
4. A small, single-masted mediterranean ship with a large lateen sail.

1. A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with scottish highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
2. the pattern associated with such material.
3. an individual or a group wearing tartan; a highlander or scotsman in general.
4. trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
5. having a pattern like a tartan.
6. scottish.
7. to clothe in tartan.
8. A type of one-masted vessel used in the mediterranean.

1. woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the highlands of scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
2. A small coasting vessel, used in the mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

1. A woolen or worsted cloth woven with lines or stripes of different colors crossing each other at right angles so as to form a definite pattern.
2. the design or “set”of the colors in the cloth known as tartan. see set, n., 14.
3. the check peculiar to this cloth. also shepherd's plaid.
4. variegated with the cross-barred bands and stripes of color characteristic of the scottish tartans, or with patterns of a similar kind.
5. A vessel used in the mediterranean for commercial and other purposes.

1. a cloth having a crisscross design