Citations:druggeting


 * noun: coarse, hard-wearing, woollen cloth, usually woven in narrow strips, used as an underlay or protective covering, especially for carpets


 * 1820, Sir John Palmer Acland in ; or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature: For the Year 1819 (volume LXI), “Parliamentary Reports, and Accounts”, ‘Report on Gaols’, :
 * Yes; the making of blanketing, druggeting and coarse things may be learned in a much shorter period, and all narrow cloth weaving may be taught in a much shorter period; but it requires a good deal of time to learn to throw the shuttle in the making of a breadth of cloth.
 * 1851,  and W. Hawkins (superintendents of classes 12 & 15), George Wagstaffe Yapp (editor), Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (corrected edition), works of industry of the United Kingdom, § III: “Manufactures”, Classes 12 and 15: ‘Woollen and Worsted, Mixed Fabrics, including Shawls — Areas L. M. N. O. 10 to 17, and South Transept Gallery’, page 79/1, article 133:
 * 133 Barraclough, W. & Son, Halifax, Manu. — Specimens of striped lists, cloth, druggeting, padding, kerseys, linseys, tweed, house cloths, and table covers.
 * 1857, John Askew, A voyage to Australia & New Zealand; including a visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter’s River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland; with a summary of the progress and discoveries made in each colony from its founding to the present time: by a steerage passenger, John Askew, chapter iii, §§ 64–65: “Condition of the Working Man‥Climate”, :
 * The tents I saw in the vicinity of Melbourne were both elegant and comfortable. Some were neatly lined with druggetting, and had the greensward floor covered with carpets.
 * 1930,, The Redlakes, Harper & Brothers, pages 207–208:
 * And next day Thorpe Castle was empty of all living souls but a few bored servants left behind, under old Mrs. Hadley, to cover the carpets with druggetting and drape with white dustcloths pianos and chairs and pictures, as dead as a horny chrysalis from which the butterfly has flown.
 * 1937 November, Canon R. Hughes, Holyhead Parish Magazine, volume 10, № 119, “Vicar’s Letter”, page 2/1, ¶ 4:
 * I shall be glad of offers of a small Sanctuary Carpet, druggeting for the Aisle, or a hundred copies of the Burial Service at 2d. or 3d. each.