matted

matted

1. simple past and past participle of mat
2. simple past and past participle of matt
3. simple past and past participle of matte

matted (comparative more matted, superlative most matted)

1. Forming a thick tangled mess.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantyine Books, published 1963, page 123:

     As the warrior emerged from the forest, Tarzan caught a fleeting glimpse of a tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle grasses in his wake—it was Numa, the lion. He, too, was stalking the black man.

2. Covered with mats or matting.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library […]