The sails have a slender pole on each side to which the matting is secured by small pegs; when set, they are put up on end side by side, travelling along the backstay by means of a cane grommet.
She ran to the matting curtain, looked out, and called back, "Quick!
Blake saw the crimson that dripped on her matting slippers and maculated the cream white of the mandarin coat.
Her feet and ankles were also bare, except for thematting sandals into which her toes were thrust.
Above the cases the fine mattingmet the ceiling of tightly stretched white calico.
She stood poised firmly, half-way between the table and the curtained doorway, the insteps of her bare feet gleaming like marble on the overshadowed matting of the floor.
His look fell upon the long pathway whereon, for three hundred yards, matting had been spread.
Suddenly the three mad dervishes waved their hands towards the matting and shrieked something into his ear.
In some factories, instead of matting the curd in the vat, a curd sink is used.
For cheese-making, each is covered with a strip of matting consisting of wooden strips held together by thread (Fig.
If lumps form at the early stage, by matting of the curd particles, violent stirring is required to separate them.
Matting or cheddaring+ is the distinctive feature of the Cheddar process.
The intervening process of matting in the Cheddar group involves a combination of a souring process with the removal of whey, during which the cubes of curd become fused into semi-solid masses.
While milling, the cut curd should be stirred as fast as milled to prevent matting again and to allow odors to escape.
The strip of matting should be exactly the width and length of the table.
So it happened here that all over the land, as the grain and fruit ripen, watch-towers of matting and poles are run up by the agricultural population.
But it was not that which set him running: it was a long spiral of grey smoke rising from a lean-to of matting and boards which had been put up against one of the brick walls.
I know now that the stripes on matting never match.
We told each other that after all it must necessarily take some little time to get up this far, but that the matting would certainly be along presently, now, and that it would take but a short time to lay it.
We rejoiced in our newly-acquired freedom, and praised everything from the warm sunlight that lay in a square on the matting of every room to the rain that splashed against the windows and trailed across the waving fields.
When I criticised her inclination to overdo matters, she observed that I would probably be able to pull the matting along more easily if I wouldn't lie down on the piece I was trying to pull.
We had not, as yet, paid for the laying, and we said that rather than give that shameless firm another dollar we would lay that matting if it killed us.
He waved us off with the assurance that we need give ourselves no uneasiness in the matter--that, in all probability, the matting we had purchased as a floor basis would be there before we were.
Over this framework are fastened sheets of mattingmade of cat-tail rushes.
This matting is very light and thin, but a layer or two of it keeps out a great deal of cold.
They, too, were made of a light framework of poles over which were hung sheets of rush matting which could be easily removed and rolled up, for future use in case of removal.
The roof sloped from the top of the wall up to a central point; it was made of poles, covered with willow matting and then with grass.
My boxes and trunks are wrapped in bast-matting and secured with strong ropes to the driver's box and behind the tarantass.
The dead were sewed up in hides or matting and interred under the dwelling-house, or, in the case of important men, in special funereal towers.
They sail with sails of matting made by the women, and have outriggers which give stability to their boats, and they cross boldly from island to island.
In Holland, chiefly at the Hague and Haarlem, cricket is played to a limited extent onmatting wickets.
South African cricketers visiting England are handicapped by playing on turf instead of on the matting wickets used in South Africa.
In England cricket is invariably played on turf wickets, but in the Colonies matting wickets are often employed, and sometimes matches have taken place on sand, earth and other substances.
She put her hands on the mattingin front of her, and bowed to the floor before her Mother.
Below these, again, is a thick jungle of shrubs of many species, masses of creeping-plants matting the bushes together, or depending from the trees and ferns in infinite profusion and luxuriance.
So we look at our boots with a sense that our hobnails do not match with the white Japanese matting that covers the floor; and we sit on the edge of our chairs just as other rustics would do at home.
A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that.
Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position.
The straw matting had Japanese figures on it, while a number of rugs covered the worn places, and gave it an opulent look.
The straw matting was almost concealed by a mammoth rug made of white Japanese goatskins sewed together; the paint was like snow, and the furniture had all been painted white, save for the delicate silver lines that relieved it.
The hole was likewise covered over with a sort of matting of green rushes, which concealed the pit below.
The greater part was formed of bamboo, and matting served as a cover to keep off the sun's rays in the day-time, and the damp at night.
He was an enormously fat man, and was seated on a pile of matting in a sort of verandah in front of his abode, and supported by a number of women, whom I took to be his wives.
Their only dress was a piece ofmatting worn round the loins, and their ornaments, necklaces formed of the teeth of wild animals, and rings round their arms and legs.
The calves were engaging each other in mimic fights, while the older cattle were scarring every exposed bank, or matting their foreheads in clay and soft dirt.
The unusual winter snowfall had left a season's moisture in the ground, and the grass came in abundance, matting slope and valley, while the garden grew like a rank weed.
Matting should be swept with a soft broom and wiped over with a damp cloth, using as little water as possible, and no soap, which stains and discolors it.
Matting is easily broken and should not be used where the bed must be drawn away from the wall to be made, or heavy furniture moved about.
It's really quite pretty, with lovely paper and matting and chintz curtains and wicker chairs.
There were two new-looking American trunks in the room and two cases covered with matting and inscribed with mystic Japanese hieroglyphics.
In the warmer sections of the country they are built of matting and bamboo.
The floor is covered with a heavy matting two inches thick, and as these mats are of uniform size, six feet by three, the rooms are made to fit the mats, twelve feet square being the common size.
Most of the men slept, stretched full length upon rush matting on the shady sides of the tents.
In these operations, a certain amount of matting is unavoidable, and it is consequently necessary to open out the material after drying, in scutchers.
But Jack was too much interested in watching the prahu, which, in spite of only havingmatting sails, sped along over the calm water at a rapid rate, and he went on questioning his companion.
They followed the direction of his pointing finger, and saw plainly enough three long, low vessels full of men gliding by, with their matting sails glistening in the sun, and not two miles out from where they stood.
The answer came in the quick hoisting of a couple of low masts and the same number of matting sails, for the water was beginning to be flecked by a coming breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
