Definiciones
1.NounA tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.
2.NounA woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
3.NounA fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
4.NounA type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
5.NounA light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
6.NounA woman.
7.NounA bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.
8.VerbTo dress in a petticoat.
9.AdjectiveFeminine; female; involving a woman."petticoat influence; a petticoat affair"