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noun. A thick heavy covering for a floor, usually made of woven wool or synthetic fibers, especially one covering the entire surface of the floor.

noun. The fabric used for this floor covering.

noun. A surface or surface covering that is similar to a rug.

transitive verb. To cover with or as if with a carpet.

idiom. (on the carpet) In a position of being reprimanded by one in authority.

idiom. (on the carpet) Under discussion or consideration.

noun. A British collectors' name for any one of several species of geometrid moths whose wings bear a carpet-like design, as the flame-carpet (Coremia propugnata) and the hazel-carpet (Cidaria corylata).

To cover with or as with a carpet; spread with carpets: as, to carpet a room.

To bring upon the carpet or under consideration; make a subject of investigation; hence, to reprimand; “haul over the coals.”

noun. A thick fabric, usually woven of wool, or of wool on a linen ground or back, and in more or less ornamental designs, used for covering floors, stairs, etc.

noun. Especially, a covering of this material for a floor or stair, made of several widths sewed together and intended to cover all the floor-space of a room, as distinguished, from a rug, which is usually woven in one piece of a definite shape (either oblong or square), and is designed to cover a part of the floor only.

noun. Figuratively, anything used as a carpet, or serving the purpose of a 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.

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

noun. a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug.

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noun. One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.

noun. 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 (as Tinea tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.

noun. an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond.

noun. an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.

noun. 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.

noun. See under Brussels.

transitive verb. To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

noun. A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

noun. Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

noun. A woman's pubic hair.

verb. To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

verb. To substantially cover something, like a carpet; to blanket something.

verb. To reprimand.

noun. a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

verb. cover completely, as if with a carpet

verb. cover with a carpet

verb. form a carpet-like cover (over)

noun. floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

"a Knight Banneret, dubbed in the field of battle, but, _on carpet consideration_, at a festivity, or on sone peaceable occasion, when knights receive their dignity kneeling not on the ground, as in war, but on a _carpet_."