Matting
['mætɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp).
Typed by Doreen--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mat
(v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
(v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.
(v. t. & i.) Materials for mats.
(v. t. & i.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.
(n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
Edited by Clio
Definition
n. a covering with mats: a texture like a mat but larger: material for mats.
Edited by Clare
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of matting, foretells pleasant prospects and cheerful news from the absent. If it is old or torn, you will have vexing things come before you.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The laborers and their families sleep in hammocks or on matting on the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Matting is woven; wire, cane, straw, spun glass; in fact, everything that can be woven by hand into useful articles now finds its especially constructed machine for weaving it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The fibrous coat of the nut is made into a preparation called cellulose, which is described in another story in this book, and also into the well-known cocoanut matting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She advanced along this corridor, leaving no traces upon the cocoanut matting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The professor's corridor is also lined with cocoanut matting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a candle burning just outside, and on the matting in the gallery. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then beyond where the road was not protected by the hills it was screened by matting on the sides and over the top. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We went on down the clear road and as it turned a corner into the open and went into the square arched tunnel of matting the rain started again. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Molly