shirting vs cloth

shirting and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shirting	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of shirting; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than shirting:

shirting: any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of shirting include fabric, material, textile.

shirting (noun)	cloth (noun)
any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers