The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CARPET
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More clues leading to the result CARPET
- Vehicle with household animal, maybe 10
- Pull up vehicle and embrace
- Something for floor favoured beneath vehicle
- What may deaden sound in room for lecture?
- Tear a strip off floor covering
- To cover piano, trace woven rug
- Reprimand when retro record snuck into trolley
- Dress down in a pile on the floor?
- Swimmer and Parisian runner
- Caught at rack initially taking favourite dress down
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What does CARPET mean?
CARPET noun- A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
- Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
- Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
- A wrought cover for tables.
- A woman's pubic hair.
- To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
- To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
- To reprimand.