DRUGGET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drugget mean? 

• DRUGGET (noun)
  The noun DRUGGET has 1 sense:

1. a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling

  Familiarity information: DRUGGET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUGGET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drugget" is a kind of...):

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

 Context examples 

Lucas quickly turned back the drugget, thrust the document into some hiding-place there, and covered it over.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wooden lid was replaced, and the drugget had only just been drawn straight when Lestrade’s voice was heard in the passage.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks, highly polished.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tore the drugget from the floor, and in an instant was down on his hands and knees clawing at each of the squares of wood beneath it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How about moving that drugget?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No doubt you thought that your breach of duty could never be discovered, and yet a mere glance at that drugget was enough to convince me that someone had been admitted to the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)