Used in Congress, in this expression, to get the floor; that is, to obtain an opportunity of taking part in a debate. The English say, to be in possession of the House.--Pickering's Vocabulary.
·noun The right to speak. II. Floor ·noun A horizontal, flat ore body. III. Floor ·noun The part o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down the officer. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
a flat fish. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The bottom of a vessel on each side of the kelson; but strictly taken, it is only so much of her bot...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Gabbatha] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
In ship-building, is a ribband placed between the floor and the keel. ...
This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...
The inflected curve of the floor, extending from the keel to the back of the floor-sweep, which the ...
In naval architecture, are longitudinal sections, whereon are represented the water-lines and ribban...
This is an important fir-timber which runs round a little below the floor-heads, for the support of ...
Knees brought in from side to side over the floor ceiling and kelson, to support the bottom, if bilg...
See floors ...
The radii that sweep the heads of the floors. The first in the builder's draught, which is limited b...
For this peculiar curve, see half-breadth of the rising. ...