FLOOR, n. flore. In early ages, the inhabitants of Europe had no floor in their huts, but the ground. The sense of the word is probably that which is laid or spread.
1. That part of a building or room on which we walk the bottom or lower part, consisting, in modern houses, of boards, plands or pavement as the floor of a house, room, bar, stable or outhouse.
2. A platform of boards or plans laid on timbers, as in a bridge any similar platform.
3. A story in a building as the first or second floor.
4. A floor or earthen floor is still used in some kinds of business, made of loam, or of lime, sand and iron dust, as in malting.
5. The bottom of a ship, or that part which is nearly horizontal.
FLOOR, To lay a floor to cover timbers with a floor to furnish with a floor as, to floor a house with pine boards.