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Flooring

noun

The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure). Synonym: floor. "We spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"

Building material used in laying floors.

Floor

verb

(past & past part. floored; pres. part. flooring)

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off. Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback.

Knock down with force. Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down.

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"Flooring" Quotes from Famous Books

... to bring assistance. Then with a select band, lightly armed, he went to the banquet. The hall was decked with regal splendour; it was covered all round with crimson hangings of marvellous rich handiwork. A curtain of purple dye adorned the propelled walls. The flooring was bestrewn with bright mantles, which a man would fear to trample on. Up above was to be seen the twinkle of many lanterns, the gleam of lamps lit with oil, and the censers poured forth fragrance whose sweet vapour was laden ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... we have said, were empty, but there were some curious appliances in them, having the appearance of chains, and wristlets, and bars of iron running along and fixed to their decks, or rather to the flooring of their holds. Their long yards and sails were ...

— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne

... went over every inch of that basement, until I knew every crack in the flooring, every spot on the cement. And Bella was nasty, and said that she had never seen that part of the house in such condition, and that if I had acted like a sane person and put her out, when she had no business there at all, she would have had her freedom and ...

— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... was the familiar south wall of the laboratory. To the north, east and west was—open air. He was standing on a section of laboratory flooring that jutted out over empty space from the wall. His desk was a few feet away, right at the edge of the jutting floor. Gault and Pillbot were picking themselves up to one ...

— The 4-D Doodler • Graph Waldeyer

... picture, which fell with a crash on the tiled flooring around the fireplace. The glass broke and splintered. Shaw gasped and gurgled under the strangling hold of the powerful fingers on his throat. Lamp and table were overturned in the struggle that carried the three ...

— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

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