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1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / O / On the carpet. [p. 90]

On the carpet.

A slang term sometimes used by printers when a workman is summoned before the authorities into the counting house.

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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.

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O. T. M.
On galley.
On grass.
On lines.
On piece.
On the carpet.
On the gathering board.
On time.
On tramp.
Onesided machine.
O. P.