Floor covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp)

Usage examples of matting.

Further there is no adherence, meniscus effect, or matting between the threads, also ruling out any type of liquid paint.

But from experience, he had learned that where the strips of bamboo which overlay the straw matting formed a rectangular panel, there was a door, and by the light of the electric lamp hung in the center of the corridor, he counted six of these.

The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.

Ademos had struck sparks into a fireset of straw matting snatched from a wagon.

The Holy War swept beyond it, a great canvas city, matting the distances with the confusion of flaps, guy ropes, pennants, and awnings.

Rachel arose and took a place on the farther side of the hypostyle, with the screens of matting between her and Masanath.

This was no conventional native house made on a platform of basalt stones called a pae-pae, no spindling thing of mattings and framework tied together with cordage of the faufee, or lacebark tree.

A few booths and two-wheeled carts sheltered their owners, who slept curled up on matting with other ragged mats pulled over them.

Aristocratic banners stood on poles outside matting huts: the serpent of Timur, the monkey-badge of the Hanomans of Jagdana, the goat of Kambing Negara, the tiger of the Singhas of Gamartha.

For the maintenance of the wagons there were two drums of tar to be mixed with animal fat to grease the wheel hubs, heavy coils of rawhide trek ropes, ri ems and straps, yokes and yoke-pins, lynch-pins for the wheel hubs, rolls of canvas and coir matting to repair the tents.

But the See No Evil was a chaos of broken furniture and rice mortars, parts of looms, tools, lumber, mildewed account books, stacks of dusty tubs and earthenware jugs and torn straw matting.

Abdullah thought flittingly of rendering the former mercenary a military salute, but as he was not at all certain just what all of the arquebusiers and calivermen might do if he drew free his blade, he settled for making a leg, sweeping his hat plume across the grass matting that covered the floor.

His mean, colourless eyes wandered inquiringly over the crowd, as the mad dervishes, half-naked, some with masses of dishevelled hair, some with no hair at all, bleached, haggard, moaning and shrieking, threw themselves to the ground on the matting, while attendants pulled off their slippers and placed them under their heads, which lay face downwards.

Suddenly the three mad dervishes waved their hands towards the matting and shrieked something into his ear.

He sat down in the open hold between two huge amphorae of wine, and set one of the weather cloths, a frame of woven matting, upright in its notches in the gunwale.