Word Meanings - CARPET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be

Additional info about word: CARPET

packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller. 2. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." Shak. Carpet beetle or Carpet bug , a small beetle , which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug. -- Carpet knight. A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service. -- Carpet moth , the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvæ of species of Tinea ; others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus. -- Carpet snake , an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond. -- Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets. -- To be on the carpet, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover. -- Brussels carpet. See under Brussels.

Related words: (words related to CARPET)

• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• PACKER
  A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• FELTING
  1. The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made. 2. The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• FELTER
  To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• FELTRY
  See N
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• FABRICATE
  1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• REPACKER
  One who repacks.
• SNIPPACK
  The common snipe.