carpetingn.
/ˈkɑːpɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɑrpədɪŋ/ 1. The action of covering (as) with carpet.
2. Material for carpets.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > material for
carpeting1758
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for floor-coverings
carpencloth1577
stair-clotha1756
carpeting1806
1758 B. Franklin Let. 19 Feb. in Wks. (1887) III. 7 Some carpeting for a best room floor.
1790 U.S. Statutes at Large I. 181 Carpets and carpeting.
1794 U.S. Stat. at Large I. 391 [Duty of] Five per cent ad valorem... On carpets and carpeting.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 27 This [is] carpeting, compared with what follows.
1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 22 Feb. 114/1 Matting and carpeting have done much for the stone floor.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 139 In Wilton carpeting, there is both a linen warp and a worsted warp.
3. transferred. A carpet-like covering.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a carpet
carpet1597
carpeting1883
1883 Cent. Mag. Dec. 174/1 Its rich carpeting of wild flowers.
1885 S. O. Jewett Marsh Island xiv The frayed whitish carpeting of their last year's leaves.
4. See carpet v. 4.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]
telingeOE
chastiment?c1225
snapinga1300
snibbinga1300
reproving?1316
undernimminga1325
correctiona1340
threapening1340
admonishingc1350
reproofa1375
scourgingc1374
correptionc1380
repreyningc1390
reprehensiona1413
undertakingc1430
rebuke?a1439
admonition1440
correptingc1449
rebut?c1450
reprehendingc1450
redargution1483
reproval1493
increpation1502
prisec1540
tasking1543
check1588
improof1590
snubbing1600
threap1636
compellation1656
reprovement1675
reprimanding1698
rowing1812
lecturing1861
carpeting1888
eldering1912
woodshedding1940
stick1956
1888 N.E.D. at Carpeting Mod. colloq. ‘She received from her mistress a thorough good carpeting.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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