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/flˈɔrɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Flooring n.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.

Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

verb

Floor v. t. (past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. "Floored or crushed by him."

To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination. (Colloq.) "I've floored my little-go work."

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Etymology of 'Flooring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flooring" Quotes from Famous Books

... all gathered upon the centre of the raft that had been thus hastily constructed, and awaited their fate. Aphiz and Selim bound their respective charges to the raft by cords about their bodies, to prevent the possibility of their being washed from its unprotected flooring. ...

— The Circassian Slave; or, The Sultan's Favorite - A Story of Constantinople and the Caucasus • Lieutenant Maturin Murray

... for it was just the place to look for them. It had a garret; very nearly such a one as it seems to me one of us has described in one of his books; but let us look at this one as I can reproduce it from memory. It has a flooring of laths with ridges of mortar squeezed up between them, which if you tread on you will go to—the Lord have mercy on you! where will you go to?—the same being crossed by narrow bridges of boards, on ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... instinctive resentment, what had brought her among this largely negligent gathering. She had barely known Clare; Gordon was not certain that she had ever been in their house. He could see her plainly now—she stood clasping white gloves with firm, pink hands; her gaze was lowered upon the uneven flooring of the porch. He could see the soft contour of her chin, a shimmer of warm, brown hair. She was crisply fresh, incredibly young in the group of gaunt, worn forms; her ruffled fairness was an affront to the thin, rigid shoulders ...

— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... Senator [Hammond] wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them 'the mudsills of society,' he paid them ignorantly a true praise; for good men are as the green plain of the earth is, as the rocks and the beds of the rivers are, the foundation and flooring and sills of the State."—R. W. EMERSON, Atlantic Monthly, January, 1892, ...

— The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 • Basil L. Gildersleeve

... in a little cabin far up the mountain side. His hands were bound tightly behind him and were made fast to a heavy wooden stake driven into the hard mud flooring. ...

— Young Captain Jack - The Son of a Soldier • Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield

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