noun

1. a thick, heavy fabric of wool, cotton, or synthetic fibers for covering a floor, stairs, etc.: it is woven, usually with a pile, or felted
2. a strip, or several joined strips, of such fabric
3. anything like a carpet a carpet of snow

Etymology: ME < OFr carpite, carpet, kind of cloth < ML carpita, thick woolen cloth < pp. of L carpere, to card, pluck: see excerpt

transitive verb