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Floor
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
(2):
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(3):
(n.) A story of a building. See Story.
(4):
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.
(5):
(n.) The right to speak.
(6):
(v. t.) 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.
(7):
(v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
(8):
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(9):
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(10):
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
(11):
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
(12):
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Floor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/floor.html. 1828.
