Not P but Moby-Dick (40)

[Mark Kohut]

All I can find is this. From a book on making paper:

FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 156
... grass mat and its wet sheet are then lifted off the frame with a
rolling movement and deposited on a board , once ... swinging the mould .
The laid cover is secured between two wooden frames , and when forming is
complete the two halves ...

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 54:
>
> “Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo? ” said
> Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
>
> What is this "swinging mat of grass" exactly? Is it a mat made of grass?
> Then how is it swinging?
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