mattressn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmatrᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈmætrəs/

Forms: Middle English martras, Middle English materace, Middle English materase, Middle English materasz, Middle English materaz, Middle English materis, Middle English materos, Middle English matrace, Middle English matras, Middle English matrase, Middle English matress, Middle English matrize, Middle English matrys, Middle English matteras, Middle English 1700s materesse, Middle English 1700s–1800s matrass, Middle English–1500s materas, Middle English–1500s materes, Middle English–1500s matres, Middle English–1500s matrice, Middle English–1500s mattres, Middle English–1600s matrasse, Middle English–1600s mattresse, 1500s matteres, 1500s mattrace, 1500s mattrys, 1500s–1600s matteris, 1500s–1600s mattriss, 1500s– mattress, 1600s matresse, 1600s matross, 1600s matterice, 1600s mattrice, 1600s– mattrass, 1700s matteress; Scottish pre-1700 marterres, pre-1700 materase, pre-1700 materes, pre-1700 matras, pre-1700 matres, 1900s– matrass, 1900s– matressh.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French materas.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman materas, materace, materasse and Old French, Middle French materas (Middle French, French matelas ), probably (via Frankish) < Italian materasso (c1350; a1306 as materazo ) < post-classical Latin mataracium , mataratium , matarazum (second half of the 13th cent. in Italian sources; from the beginning of the 13th cent. in British sources as matracium , materacium ) < (with ending modelled after plumacium down pillow: see plumaciol n.) Arabic maṭraḥ place where something is thrown, hence carpet, cushion, bed, noun of place < ṭaraḥa to throw (see tare n.²). Arabic maṭraḥ > (with Arabic prefixed article al-) Old Occitan almatrac (12th cent.), Spanish almadraque (c1270; c1250 as almatraque), Portuguese almadraque (1359) cushion.

I. A support or covering.

1. A large rectangular case of strong fabric, filled with yielding but resilient material such as straw, hair, etc., so as to provide comfortable support for a person lying down, and usually forming part of a bed; (later also) any similar contrivance providing support by means of an array of springs, or (less commonly) by means of water, air, etc.air-, foam, hair-mattress, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress

mattressc1300

dongec1440

nat1604

tye1615

c1300 St. Vincent (Laud) 125 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 188 Maketh a bed..Of quoiltene and of materasz.

1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 (MED) My secunde best fetherbed, with caneuas materas.

?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 779 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 207 The pilwes nesshe and esy materas.

1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 38 Duo matrasses, pretii vs.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 24^v The flesshe lieth bytwene the bone and the skynne lyke a mattresse of cotton.

1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. 256 Gownes of cotton like to our mattraces and quilted caps.

1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 136 A bedsteed, a matt, a matterice, a fetherbed.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 94 She..On a hard Mattress is content to sleep.

1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/2 Jonas Spoke..maketh Flock Beds and Matteresses, and combeth worsted, at reasonable Rates.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. 82 Their beds consist of a matrass laid on a floor, and over this a sheet.

1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 86 He hid it between a mattrass and a bed.

1849 Brit. Patent 12,385 (1857) 4 An elastic mattress entirely metallic.

1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) Water mattress, a waterproof case containing water, used for the prevention of bed-sores.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxvii. 351 The damp straw of the mattress, fired from beneath and denied air, had been smouldering all the while.

1987 Sunday Express Mag. 31 May 41/4 The accommodation is spartan, with paper-thin mattresses.

†2. A protective covering, esp. one for plants; a mat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > protective coverings for plants

pease-haulm1432

mulch1657

mattress1658

litter1666

weather-basket1699

Archangel mat1854

mulching1855

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > mat

mateOE

foot-cloth1344

nata1425

foot pace1543

stuorie1555

mattress1658

petate1843

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 239 Shelter them [sc. peas] with pannels of Reeds or Mattresses [Fr. paillassons].

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 174 By their carefull covering them [sc. plaster floors] with Canvas, & fine mattresses, where there is much passage [etc.].

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 65 in Sylva Covering them [sc. delicate plants] with Mattresses supported on cradles of hoops.

1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens i. 59 Your Flow'rs defend with Mattresses of Straw.

3. Civil Engineering. Originally: a strong mat consisting of pieces of brushwood bound or twisted together, used in layers in the construction of dykes, piers, etc., or placed on a river bank to prevent erosion. Later also: a layer of any material, esp. concrete, serving the same purpose or used as a base or reinforcement for a road, railway, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plant fibre materials > [noun] > matting > used in construction

mattress1875

1875 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 161 In commencing the construction of the dam..the first step was to cover the entire site with a strong fascine mattrass.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The parallel jetties [at the mouth of the Mississippi] consist of tiers of willow mattresses.

1912 F. A. A. Talbot Making of Great Canad. Railway 194 From foundation-level in such cases corduroying or ‘cross-waying’ had to be resorted to,..the earthwork super-structure being supported on a sunken mattress.

1975 Offshore Sept. 49–17/1 Seabed mattresses are the speciality of Aannemers Combinatie Sinkwerken, with protection against scour as the main objective.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 89/1 The National Rivers Authority has revived the traditional Dutch practice of sinking ‘mattresses’ of hazel faggots and reed to help fortify the banks of the River Ouse.

II. In extended use.

4. U.S. A layered bed or bank of cut sugar cane. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > sugar-cane > bed of

mattress1829

1829 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 2) 255 The stacks or banks in which seed cane is preserved during winter, are called mattresses.

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 423 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI It was..supposed that the cane was spoiled in the mattress by the continued warm weather after it was mattressed.

1866 W. Reid After War 470 Cane which had been cut from last year's crop, and..had been buried in ‘mattresses’ for planting in the spring.

5. Radio. [Probably short for mattress array n. at Compounds 2; compare also slightly later mattress antenna n. at Compounds 2] = billboard n. 2. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > assembly of specific aerials

array1919

broadside array1932

musa1937

phased array1938

mattress1947

mattress array1947

billboard1950

1947 D. G. Fink Radar Engin. iv. 249 The gain of a paraboloid is generally lower than that of a mattress of the same area expressed in square wavelengths.

6. slang (chiefly U.S.). A prostitute; a woman who has had numerous sexual partners.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1964 G. L. Coon Short End 218 Bertha was just one great big warm mattress.

1974 P. Kingry Monk & Marines 166 The VC would just tell any poor puke..that he better remember he had a daughter or a wife in the ville that would be turned into a mattress for the troops or worse.

1994 P. Baker Blood Posse vi. 64 Nadine's the mattress for the whole football team. Don't tell me you got the hots for the little whore.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

mattress cover n.

ΚΠ

1906 N.E.D. (at cited word) Mattress rubber, ?a rough mattress-cover.

1949 A. Murphy To Hell & Back xvi. 195 There is no other branch of the army that offers so many chances for the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Wooden Cross, the Royal Order of the Mattress Covers.

1988 S. E. McKay New Child Safety Handbk. ii. 25/1 Some parents have used plastic garbage bags as mattress covers.

mattress-maker n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > mattress-maker

mattress-maker1380

1380 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 215 (MED) Ric. Materesse Maker.

1797 Longworth's Amer. Almanac 118 Banks, James, mattrassmaker, Orchard-street.

1992 Evening Standard 13 Apr. 25 Needless to say, the country's mattress-makers are not losing any sleep over Prof Touchon's findings.

mattress-making n.

ΚΠ

1828 Reg. Arts 10 Dec. 51 In the manner of mattress making.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 Mrs. Washington herself was good enough to be my guide through the women's building..with its departments of plain sewing, dressmaking and millinery, mattress-making, [etc.].

mattress pad n.

ΚΠ

1963 Amer. Speech 38 77 The mattress and the mattress pad (both were cotton-filled) eventually superseded the bed-sack.

1990 Sci. Amer. Dec. 90/2 Consumer Reports..recommended last year that children and pregnant women should avoid electric blankets and mattress pads in favor of comforters.

mattress-tick n.

ΚΠ

1857 Subject-matter Index Patents 1617–1852: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) 924 Weaving looms (for making..mattress-ticks, &c.).

mattress-ticking n.

ΚΠ

1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 799/1 An excellent tunic, togs, or chiton may be made from an old meal-sack, or a mattress-ticking.

1988 J. Trollope Choir ii. 31 She..covered the walls with paper striped like mattress ticking.

b. (In sense 3.)

mattress dyke n.

ΚΠ

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The entrance..was contracted..by means of mattress dykes; and mattress sills were laid right across the entrance.

mattress sill n.

ΚΠ

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The entrance..was contracted..by means of mattress dykes; and mattress sills were laid right across the entrance.

C2.

mattress antenna n. Radio = billboard n. 2.

ΚΠ

1950 J. D. Kraus Antennas xii. 327 (caption) Array of ½-wavelength elements with flat sheet reflector (billboard or mattress antenna).

mattress array n. Radio = billboard n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > assembly of specific aerials

array1919

broadside array1932

musa1937

phased array1938

mattress1947

mattress array1947

billboard1950

1947 D. G. Fink Radar Engin. iv. 247 The power efficiencies of properly adjusted mattress arrays vary from 80 to 95 per cent.

1961 R. L. Mattingly in H. Jasik Antenna Engin. Handbk. xxv. 26 A common transmitter-receiving antenna can be implemented with a mattress array.

mattress boat n. now rare a boat on which mattresses for dykes, etc., are made and from which they are launched.

ΚΠ

1879 Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers ii. 1068 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (46th Congress, 2nd Sess.) A mattress-boat, nicknamed the Spider, was designed and constructed, from which the first mat was launched.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 588/2 A mattress boat consists essentially of a set of 8 trussed ways supported by two scows.

† mattress-coat n. Obsolete rare a fleece with the surface matted together.

ΚΠ

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 22 When woll is well risen from the skinne, the fleece is, as it weare, walked togeather on the toppe, and underneath it is but lightly fastened to the undergrowth; and when a fleece is thus it is called a mattrice-coate.

mattress-jig n. slang (an act of) sexual intercourse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

ymonec950

moneOE

meanc1175

manredc1275

swivinga1300

couplec1320

companyc1330

fellowred1340

the service of Venusc1350

miskissinga1387

fellowshipc1390

meddlinga1398

carnal knowinga1400

flesha1400

knowledgea1400

knowledginga1400

japec1400

commoning?c1425

commixtionc1429

itc1440

communicationc1450

couplingc1475

mellingc1480

carnality1483

copulation1483

mixturea1500

Venus act?1507

Venus exercise?1507

Venus play?1507

Venus work?1507

conversation?c1510

flesh-company1522

act?1532

carnal knowledge1532

occupying?1544

congression1546

soil1555

conjunction1567

fucking1568

rem in re1568

commixture1573

coiture1574

shaking of the sheets?1577

cohabitation1579

bedding1589

congress1589

union1598

embrace1599

making-outa1601

rutting1600

noddy1602

poop-noddy1606

conversinga1610

carnal confederacy1610

wapping1610

businessa1612

coition1615

doinga1616

amation1623

commerce1624

hot cocklesa1627

other thing1628

buck1632

act of love1638

commistion1658

subagitation1658

cuntc1664

coit1671

intimacy1676

the last favour1676

quiffing1686

old hat1697

correspondence1698

frigging1708

Moll Peatley1711

coitus1713

sexual intercourse1753

shagging1772

connection1791

intercourse1803

interunion1822

greens1846

tail1846

copula1864

poking1864

fuckeea1866

sex relation1871

wantonizing1884

belly-flopping1893

twatting1893

jelly roll1895

mattress-jig1896

sex1900

screwing1904

jazz1918

zig-zig1918

other1922

booty1926

pigmeat1926

jazzing1927

poontang1927

relations1927

whoopee1928

nookie1930

hump1931

jig-a-jig1932

homework1933

quickie1933

nasty1934

jig-jig1935

crumpet1936

pussy1937

Sir Berkeley1937

pom-pom1945

poon1947

charvering1954

mollocking1959

leg1967

rumpy-pumpy1968

shafting1971

home plate1972

pata-pata1977

bonking1985

legover1985

knobbing1986

rumpo1986

fanny1993

1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 290/2 Mattress-jig, copulation.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 404 Smutty Moll for a mattress jig.

mattress money n. [with reference to the supposed custom of concealing savings inside or beneath the mattress] U.S. (Business slang) the uninvested savings of private individuals, esp. as a source of commercial funds or revenue.

ΚΠ

1980 San Francisco Business Jrnl. 14 Apr. 21/3 There's a lot of money generated privately from friends and relatives and personal savings. We call it mattress money.

1990 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. 7/2 A main aim of the legitimized dollar exchange is to tap into the ‘mattress money’, the huge stash of dollars held by Poles..that has had little legitimate place in the economy.

mattress-needle n. a long needle of a type used in making mattresses.

ΚΠ

1858 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 11 Dec. 26/1 Packing-needles, mattress-needles, and sail-sewing needles.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 236/2 Curved Mattress Needle (Hydraulic Engineering), a needle for sewing brush mats with No. 13 wire.

1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 106/3 Join the limbs [of the doll] to the torso with black round elastic, threaded onto a mattress needle long enough to join the parts in one movement.

† mattress rubber n. Obsolete (perhaps) a rough mattress cover.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkkk2/2 Here's a promising palme..here's Downe compar'd with Flocks and quilted Straw, thy Knights fingers Are Ieane [1679 and modern editions read lean] mattrice rubbers to these Feathers.

mattress suture n. Surgery a type of surgical stitch used esp. to close the edges of a wound, in which the needle is reinserted on the same side from which it emerged, forming a loop on each side as it is passed back and forth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > uniting fractures, wounds, etc. > uniting wound > by stitching > types of suture

glover's stitch1672

glover's suture1767

twisted suture1767

mattress suture1900

1900 Lancet 3 Nov. 1290/1 A fine silk mattress-suture is passed through the under surfaces of the cut ends and tied.

1903 J. C. da Costa Mod. Surg. (ed. 4) 782 Halsted's mattress or quilt suture is shown in Fig. 376.

1994 Ophthalmic Surg. 25 727/2 A corneal mattress suture was used to repair the limbal conjunctival disinsertion.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mattress
释义	mattressn.¹ Brit. /ˈmatrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmætrəs/ Forms: Middle English martras, Middle English materace, Middle English materase, Middle English materasz, Middle English materaz, Middle English materis, Middle English materos, Middle English matrace, Middle English matras, Middle English matrase, Middle English matress, Middle English matrize, Middle English matrys, Middle English matteras, Middle English 1700s materesse, Middle English 1700s–1800s matrass, Middle English–1500s materas, Middle English–1500s materes, Middle English–1500s matres, Middle English–1500s matrice, Middle English–1500s mattres, Middle English–1600s matrasse, Middle English–1600s mattresse, 1500s matteres, 1500s mattrace, 1500s mattrys, 1500s–1600s matteris, 1500s–1600s mattriss, 1500s– mattress, 1600s matresse, 1600s matross, 1600s matterice, 1600s mattrice, 1600s– mattrass, 1700s matteress; Scottish pre-1700 marterres, pre-1700 materase, pre-1700 materes, pre-1700 matras, pre-1700 matres, 1900s– matrass, 1900s– matressh. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French materas. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman materas, materace, materasse and Old French, Middle French materas (Middle French, French matelas ), probably (via Frankish) < Italian materasso (c1350; a1306 as materazo ) < post-classical Latin mataracium , mataratium , matarazum (second half of the 13th cent. in Italian sources; from the beginning of the 13th cent. in British sources as matracium , materacium ) < (with ending modelled after plumacium down pillow: see plumaciol n.) Arabic maṭraḥ place where something is thrown, hence carpet, cushion, bed, noun of place < ṭaraḥa to throw (see tare n.²). Arabic maṭraḥ > (with Arabic prefixed article al-) Old Occitan almatrac (12th cent.), Spanish almadraque (c1270; c1250 as almatraque), Portuguese almadraque (1359) cushion. I. A support or covering. 1. A large rectangular case of strong fabric, filled with yielding but resilient material such as straw, hair, etc., so as to provide comfortable support for a person lying down, and usually forming part of a bed; (later also) any similar contrivance providing support by means of an array of springs, or (less commonly) by means of water, air, etc.air-, foam, hair-mattress, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress mattressc1300 dongec1440 nat1604 tye1615 c1300 St. Vincent (Laud) 125 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 188 Maketh a bed..Of quoiltene and of materasz. 1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 (MED) My secunde best fetherbed, with caneuas materas. ?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 779 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 207 The pilwes nesshe and esy materas. 1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 38 Duo matrasses, pretii vs. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 24^v The flesshe lieth bytwene the bone and the skynne lyke a mattresse of cotton. 1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. 256 Gownes of cotton like to our mattraces and quilted caps. 1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 136 A bedsteed, a matt, a matterice, a fetherbed. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 94 She..On a hard Mattress is content to sleep. 1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/2 Jonas Spoke..maketh Flock Beds and Matteresses, and combeth worsted, at reasonable Rates. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. 82 Their beds consist of a matrass laid on a floor, and over this a sheet. 1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 86 He hid it between a mattrass and a bed. 1849 Brit. Patent 12,385 (1857) 4 An elastic mattress entirely metallic. 1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) Water mattress, a waterproof case containing water, used for the prevention of bed-sores. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxvii. 351 The damp straw of the mattress, fired from beneath and denied air, had been smouldering all the while. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 31 May 41/4 The accommodation is spartan, with paper-thin mattresses. †2. A protective covering, esp. one for plants; a mat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > protective coverings for plants pease-haulm1432 mulch1657 mattress1658 litter1666 weather-basket1699 Archangel mat1854 mulching1855 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > mat mateOE foot-cloth1344 nata1425 foot pace1543 stuorie1555 mattress1658 petate1843 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 239 Shelter them [sc. peas] with pannels of Reeds or Mattresses [Fr. paillassons]. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 174 By their carefull covering them [sc. plaster floors] with Canvas, & fine mattresses, where there is much passage [etc.]. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 65 in Sylva Covering them [sc. delicate plants] with Mattresses supported on cradles of hoops. 1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens i. 59 Your Flow'rs defend with Mattresses of Straw. 3. Civil Engineering. Originally: a strong mat consisting of pieces of brushwood bound or twisted together, used in layers in the construction of dykes, piers, etc., or placed on a river bank to prevent erosion. Later also: a layer of any material, esp. concrete, serving the same purpose or used as a base or reinforcement for a road, railway, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plant fibre materials > [noun] > matting > used in construction mattress1875 1875 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 161 In commencing the construction of the dam..the first step was to cover the entire site with a strong fascine mattrass. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The parallel jetties [at the mouth of the Mississippi] consist of tiers of willow mattresses. 1912 F. A. A. Talbot Making of Great Canad. Railway 194 From foundation-level in such cases corduroying or ‘cross-waying’ had to be resorted to,..the earthwork super-structure being supported on a sunken mattress. 1975 Offshore Sept. 49–17/1 Seabed mattresses are the speciality of Aannemers Combinatie Sinkwerken, with protection against scour as the main objective. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 89/1 The National Rivers Authority has revived the traditional Dutch practice of sinking ‘mattresses’ of hazel faggots and reed to help fortify the banks of the River Ouse. II. In extended use. 4. U.S. A layered bed or bank of cut sugar cane. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > sugar-cane > bed of mattress1829 1829 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 2) 255 The stacks or banks in which seed cane is preserved during winter, are called mattresses. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 423 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI It was..supposed that the cane was spoiled in the mattress by the continued warm weather after it was mattressed. 1866 W. Reid After War 470 Cane which had been cut from last year's crop, and..had been buried in ‘mattresses’ for planting in the spring. 5. Radio. [Probably short for mattress array n. at Compounds 2; compare also slightly later mattress antenna n. at Compounds 2] = billboard n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > assembly of specific aerials array1919 broadside array1932 musa1937 phased array1938 mattress1947 mattress array1947 billboard1950 1947 D. G. Fink Radar Engin. iv. 249 The gain of a paraboloid is generally lower than that of a mattress of the same area expressed in square wavelengths. 6. slang (chiefly U.S.). A prostitute; a woman who has had numerous sexual partners. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1964 G. L. Coon Short End 218 Bertha was just one great big warm mattress. 1974 P. Kingry Monk & Marines 166 The VC would just tell any poor puke..that he better remember he had a daughter or a wife in the ville that would be turned into a mattress for the troops or worse. 1994 P. Baker Blood Posse vi. 64 Nadine's the mattress for the whole football team. Don't tell me you got the hots for the little whore. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) mattress cover n. ΚΠ 1906 N.E.D. (at cited word) Mattress rubber, ?a rough mattress-cover. 1949 A. Murphy To Hell & Back xvi. 195 There is no other branch of the army that offers so many chances for the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Wooden Cross, the Royal Order of the Mattress Covers. 1988 S. E. McKay New Child Safety Handbk. ii. 25/1 Some parents have used plastic garbage bags as mattress covers. mattress-maker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > mattress-maker mattress-maker1380 1380 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 215 (MED) Ric. Materesse Maker. 1797 Longworth's Amer. Almanac 118 Banks, James, mattrassmaker, Orchard-street. 1992 Evening Standard 13 Apr. 25 Needless to say, the country's mattress-makers are not losing any sleep over Prof Touchon's findings. mattress-making n. ΚΠ 1828 Reg. Arts 10 Dec. 51 In the manner of mattress making. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 Mrs. Washington herself was good enough to be my guide through the women's building..with its departments of plain sewing, dressmaking and millinery, mattress-making, [etc.]. mattress pad n. ΚΠ 1963 Amer. Speech 38 77 The mattress and the mattress pad (both were cotton-filled) eventually superseded the bed-sack. 1990 Sci. Amer. Dec. 90/2 Consumer Reports..recommended last year that children and pregnant women should avoid electric blankets and mattress pads in favor of comforters. mattress-tick n. ΚΠ 1857 Subject-matter Index Patents 1617–1852: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) 924 Weaving looms (for making..mattress-ticks, &c.). mattress-ticking n. ΚΠ 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 799/1 An excellent tunic, togs, or chiton may be made from an old meal-sack, or a mattress-ticking. 1988 J. Trollope Choir ii. 31 She..covered the walls with paper striped like mattress ticking. b. (In sense 3.) mattress dyke n. ΚΠ 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The entrance..was contracted..by means of mattress dykes; and mattress sills were laid right across the entrance. mattress sill n. ΚΠ 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 581/1 The entrance..was contracted..by means of mattress dykes; and mattress sills were laid right across the entrance. C2. mattress antenna n. Radio = billboard n. 2. ΚΠ 1950 J. D. Kraus Antennas xii. 327 (caption) Array of ½-wavelength elements with flat sheet reflector (billboard or mattress antenna). mattress array n. Radio = billboard n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > assembly of specific aerials array1919 broadside array1932 musa1937 phased array1938 mattress1947 mattress array1947 billboard1950 1947 D. G. Fink Radar Engin. iv. 247 The power efficiencies of properly adjusted mattress arrays vary from 80 to 95 per cent. 1961 R. L. Mattingly in H. Jasik Antenna Engin. Handbk. xxv. 26 A common transmitter-receiving antenna can be implemented with a mattress array. mattress boat n. now rare a boat on which mattresses for dykes, etc., are made and from which they are launched. ΚΠ 1879 Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers ii. 1068 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (46th Congress, 2nd Sess.) A mattress-boat, nicknamed the Spider, was designed and constructed, from which the first mat was launched. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 588/2 A mattress boat consists essentially of a set of 8 trussed ways supported by two scows. † mattress-coat n. Obsolete rare a fleece with the surface matted together. ΚΠ a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 22 When woll is well risen from the skinne, the fleece is, as it weare, walked togeather on the toppe, and underneath it is but lightly fastened to the undergrowth; and when a fleece is thus it is called a mattrice-coate. mattress-jig n. slang (an act of) sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 290/2 Mattress-jig, copulation. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 404 Smutty Moll for a mattress jig. mattress money n. [with reference to the supposed custom of concealing savings inside or beneath the mattress] U.S. (Business slang) the uninvested savings of private individuals, esp. as a source of commercial funds or revenue. ΚΠ 1980 San Francisco Business Jrnl. 14 Apr. 21/3 There's a lot of money generated privately from friends and relatives and personal savings. We call it mattress money. 1990 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. 7/2 A main aim of the legitimized dollar exchange is to tap into the ‘mattress money’, the huge stash of dollars held by Poles..that has had little legitimate place in the economy. mattress-needle n. a long needle of a type used in making mattresses. ΚΠ 1858 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 11 Dec. 26/1 Packing-needles, mattress-needles, and sail-sewing needles. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 236/2 Curved Mattress Needle (Hydraulic Engineering), a needle for sewing brush mats with No. 13 wire. 1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 106/3 Join the limbs [of the doll] to the torso with black round elastic, threaded onto a mattress needle long enough to join the parts in one movement. † mattress rubber n. Obsolete (perhaps) a rough mattress cover.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkkk2/2 Here's a promising palme..here's Downe compar'd with Flocks and quilted Straw, thy Knights fingers Are Ieane [1679 and modern editions read lean] mattrice rubbers to these Feathers. mattress suture n. Surgery a type of surgical stitch used esp. to close the edges of a wound, in which the needle is reinserted on the same side from which it emerged, forming a loop on each side as it is passed back and forth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > uniting fractures, wounds, etc. > uniting wound > by stitching > types of suture glover's stitch1672 glover's suture1767 twisted suture1767 mattress suture1900 1900 Lancet 3 Nov. 1290/1 A fine silk mattress-suture is passed through the under surfaces of the cut ends and tied. 1903 J. C. da Costa Mod. Surg. (ed. 4) 782 Halsted's mattress or quilt suture is shown in Fig. 376. 1994 Ophthalmic Surg. 25 727/2 A corneal mattress suture was used to repair the limbal conjunctival disinsertion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mattressn.² Forms: 1600s–1800s mattriss, 1800s mattress. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps < French maîtresse mistress n., though this is apparently first attested in 1763 in this sense, as a term used by a Parisian card dealer. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mætrės, -is) /ˈmætrəs/, /ˈmatrɪs/. Obsolete. Defective playing cards. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > low quality goods brayed ware1603 breathed ware1640 mattress1685 third1768 wastera1800 imperfects1862 fifths1881 cheaps1930 irregular1940 borax1942 tat1951 braided wares- society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific quality mattress1685 merry-andrews1759 highlanders1816 Harrys or King Harrys1842 Mogul1842 paper1894 1685 London Gaz. No. 2500/4 Playing-Cards..the Mattriss at 10s. 6d. per Gross, Fine Mattriss at 12s. per Gross [etc.]. 1867 D. P. Fry Techn. Terms Manuf. Playing-cards in Trans. Philol. Soc. 56 Mattress, Mattriss, rejected playing-cards..placed at the bottom of the sorted bundle, to be..sold at a cheaper rate, as cards of inferior quality. Fine Mattress is..applied to cards which are less defective; Common M. to cards which are more defective. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mattressv. Brit. /ˈmatrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmætrəs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mattress n.¹ Etymology: < mattress n.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier mattressed adj. U.S. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. 1. transitive. To form (sugar cane) into mattresses (see mattress n.¹ 4). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > processes in sugar-cane growing trash1793 mattress1850 hole1866 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 423 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI It was..supposed that the cane was spoiled in the mattress by the continued warm weather after it was mattressed. 2. transitive. To provide (someone or something) with a mattress; to lie on a mattress (also in extended use). In passive in quots. ΚΠ 1867 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 455/2 On a broad dais blazed the high throne... On the top it was luxuriously mattressed with crimson velvet. a1891 H. Melville Poems (1924) 343 Gouty, mattressed on moss-roses. 1994 N. Rice Ground Rent in Coming up Midnight 47 She was a comfortless bedfellow, mattressed on grit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²1685v.1850
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