mat
/mæt/ noun B1- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. · Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. · They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
- A floor pad to protect athletes. · The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
- A thickly tangled mess. · a mat of weeds
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover. · Iceland moss growing in a mat
Plural mats
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The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely:
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
Douglas defended himself with the hammer, he might have left his mark upon the murderer before he dropped it on the mat.
Then either in cold blood or in the course of a struggle—Douglas may have gripped the hammer that was found upon the mat—he shot Douglas in this horrible way.
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