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▪ I. matting, vbl. n.1|ˈmætɪŋ|
[f. mat v.1 and n.1]
1. The action of becoming or state of being matted or tangled. Also with down, together.
1682H. More Contn. Remark. Stor. 41 This Magical matting of the Daughter's hair into a Witch-lock. 1707Mortimer Husb. 570 It [sc. the Malt] sinks gradually, distributing its strength to your Liquor equally without matting. 1865Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 19 The matting of the vegetation, impeding the flow of the water. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 2 The property of felting or matting, which is so characteristic of wool. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 809 Obstruction [of the bowel] by the matting together of several coils of intestine. 1899Ibid. VII. 480 The..matting down of the velum interpositum.
2. a. The process of making mats or matting. b. The covering of a floor, etc. with matting.
a.1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5891/4 Tho. Smith..of that Branch called a matted Chair-maker, is in want of Journeymen..for Matting. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 7 Among the textile arts are to be ranged matting, netting [etc.].
b.1813L. Hunt in Examiner 22 Feb. 114/1 Matting and carpeting have done much for the stone floor.
3. concr. A fabric composed of a coarse material, e.g., coir, bast, hemp, grass, etc., used as a covering for floors or roofs, or as material for packing, for tying plants, etc. Also Naut. = mat n.1 4.
Different kinds of matting are known as Canton matting, Dutch matting, India matting (see India 6), Russia matting; also coco-nut matting (see coco 4 e), sword matting (see sword).
1748Anson's Voy. iii. v. 341 The sail..is made of matting, and the mast..of bamboo. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 154, 20 Rolls Dutch Matting... Matting is used by the Cabinet-makers for packing of goods. 1819Mem. Caled. Hort. Soc. III. 111 Through the heads of these nails, strings or strands of matting are introduced. 1843Mrs. Houston Yacht Voy. Texas (1844) I. 27 The floors..are spread with a fine matting. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 324 The scion, which you will tie to it slightly with a piece of wetted matting. 1861Delamer Flower Gard. 31 The cold frame (covered with matting). 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 10 The broad stone staircase with its matting worn into large holes. 1901Hasluck Bamboo Work iii. 48 The top [of the table] is of wood covered with Japanese matting.
b. Materials for mats.
1847in Webster; and in recent Dicts.
4. attrib. or as adj. Covered with or composed of matting.
1833J. Bennett Artificer's Lex. 190 Matting hassocks,..oval or round. 1888Literary World (Boston) 4 Aug. 246/3 Matting roofs. 1895C. Holland Jap. Wife 24 The matting floor. 1900P. F. Warner Cricket in many Climes 219 An ideal ground as far as a matting wicket ever can be so.
5. attrib. and Comb., as matting line, matting needle, matting tie (cf. 2 a, b); matting-boat = mattress-boat: see mattress 4 (Cent. Dict. 1890); matting-loom, a loom in which matting is made; see also quot. 1875.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xix. 10 *Matting lines, twines, coir yarn and fibre.
1853in Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Weaving (1861) 423 My invention consists in making mats in a *matting loom. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Matting-loom (Weaving), one in which slats are introduced into the shed to form the woof.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 273/2 Their [sc. Upholsterers'] Pack or *Matting Needle.
1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 172 Common *matting ties.
▪ II. matting, vbl. n.2|ˈmætɪŋ|
[f. mat v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The production of a ‘mat’ surface, in Chasing, Gilding, etc. Also, the mat surface thus produced.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 259/2 Matting or Hatching, is to make a Beast or Lion Hairy, a Bird Feathers, Fish Scales, and Flowers and Leaves, Veins and Threads. 1758Handmaid to Arts 381 The deeper and obscure parts of the carving..are coloured after the gilding; which treatment is called matting. 1854Reinnel Carpenters' & Gilders' Comp. 74 Matting or Dead Gold. 1885F. Miller Glass-Paint. 53 If this matting [i.e. antiquing glass with umber or ancient brown] is done to deceive, it is certainly false. 1887L. L. Haslope Repoussé Work 52 The simplest form of matting is made by dots. 1893Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XL. 800 The ‘matting’ of gelatine prints has become very general. 1898T. B. Wigley Goldsm. & Jeweller 146 The term..‘surface chasing’ is generally applied to the feathering of birds,..the matting of foliage, &c.
2. The furnishing (of a picture) with a mat; concr. = mat n.2 3.
1864Webster, Matting, an ornamental border of thin rolled brass, placed between the plate and glass of a daguerreotype picture, to prevent abrasion. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Matting, the passepartout over a picture. A mat. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 141 The matting and framing of a [photographic] print.
3. Comb., as matting-pattern, matting-punch, matting-tool.
1877G. E. Gee Pract. Gold-worker 133 An effective matting-punch was at once produced. This matting-tool appears to have been greatly used by the mediæval gold⁓workers. 1898T. B. Wigley Goldsm. & Jeweller 120 Passing the wire through flattening rolls with matting pattern. |