Matting

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Mat
2. v. t. & i. The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
3. v. t. & i. Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.
4. v. t. & i. Materials for mats.
5. v. t. & i. An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.