mat

a mat of hair.

This mat is my own work.

This mat has had a lot of wear.

the mater has kept on the house in London.

The country has put out the welcome mat for international investors.

The city put out the welcome mat for the new baseball team.

My foot caught in the mat and I fell heavily.

This mat has to be hammered down at the edges.

The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen.

He and his mates were out picking mangoes.

The governor will go to the mat with the legislature over the controversial spending bill.

his chest was covered by a thick mat of soft fair hair.

He had, from his second mating, a baby girl.

We must glue the mat down at the edges to stop it curling.

Her mates are waiting for her by the gate.

In postzygotic isolating mechanisms mating occur, but the resulting hybrid organism is inviable or sterile.

The mating rituals of the cubera snappers have nothing, though, on squid.