Word Meanings - CARPETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.

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• 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
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• 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.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• CARPETING
  1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• FLOORAGE
  Floor space.
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• 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.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.