carpeted Definition

carpet
noun

1. A covering for floors and stairs, made of heavy, usually woven and tufted, fabric.
2. Something that covers a surface like a carpet does.

Example: a carpet of rose petals
3. prison slang
A prison sentence of three months.

verb carpeted, carpeting

1. To cover something with or as if with a carpet.

Thesaurus: cover, blanket, pad, overlay, put on, superimpose.
2. colloq
To reprimand or scold.

Idiom: on the carpet

colloq
Scolded or reprimanded verbally, by someone in authority.

Etymology: 14c: from French carpite, from Italian carpita woollen bed-covering, from Latin carpere to pluck or card wool.