Sentence:  ... [W]e had more recently an importation of wild Albanians <WSD>kirtled</WSD> to the knee, some eleven hundred of them, the forerunners of larger detachments,—on their way to the Hedjoz on service,—and these things, some folks said, were significant. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.