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Definition of Carpet tack
1. Noun. Used to nail down carpets.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet Tack
Literary usage of Carpet tack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"carpet tack in the Trachea for Nineteen Days; Expelled by Nature.— JAMES CRAWFORD,
MD, Professor in McGill College, reports (The, Medical Chronicle, ..."
2. Second Nights: People and Ideas of the Theatre To-day by Arthur Brown Ruhl (1914)
"It should also be said that the covered carpet-tack turns out to be a good thing
after all. At any rate, the sales are enormous, and that makes a thing good ..."
3. Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review edited by Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart (1880)
"... as the wind would have a tine sweep over the broad bay and its marshy shores.
The carpet-tack grew larger as we sped southward between the ..."
4. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1886)
"I placed a carpet tack in water over night but without any effect whatever.
Experiment 2. A rope of gold prepared as for filling a tooth was made to receive ..."
5. Elementary Chemistry by Hollis Godfrey (1909)
"TIN The "tin pan" and the "tin carpet tack.'' —The bright tin pan of the old ...
The " tin" carpet tack is iron, coated with tin, and pins are made of brass ..."
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