Carpet

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

II. Carpet ·vt To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

III. Carpet ·noun 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.

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