floor-hollow

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• Floor

  ·noun The right to speak. II. Floor ·noun A horizontal, flat ore body. III. Floor ·noun The part o...

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• Hollow

  ·vt To urge or call by shouting. II. Hollow ·interj <<Hollo>>. III. Hollow ·adj Depressed; concave...

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• to floor

  To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down the officer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hollow

  It was quiet a hollow thing; i.e. a certainty, or decided business. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• floor

  Used in Congress, in this expression, to get the floor; that is, to obtain an opportunity of taking ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hollow

  All hollow is a common expression with us, and is also given by Carr in his Craven Glossary. 'He car...

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• floor

  a flat fish. ...

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• floor

  The bottom of a vessel on each side of the kelson; but strictly taken, it is only so much of her bot...

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• hollow

  The bore of a rocket. In naval architecture, a name for the fifth or top-timber-sweep (which see). A...

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• Floor

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• Hollow-hearted

  ·adj Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. ...

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• Hollow-horned

  ·adj Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle. ...

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• all hollow

  He was beat all hollow, i.e. he had no chance of conquering: it was all hollow, or a hollow thing, i...

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• floor-guide

  In ship-building, is a ribband placed between the floor and the keel. ...

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• floor-head

  This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...

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• floor-plans

  In naval architecture, are longitudinal sections, whereon are represented the water-lines and ribban...

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• floor-ribband

  This is an important fir-timber which runs round a little below the floor-heads, for the support of ...

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• floor-riders

  Knees brought in from side to side over the floor ceiling and kelson, to support the bottom, if bilg...

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• floor-timbers

  See floors ...

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• floor-sweeps

  The radii that sweep the heads of the floors. The first in the builder's draught, which is limited b...

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• hollow bastion

  In fortification, a bastion of which the terreplein or interior terrace is not continued beyond a ce...

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• hollow-mould

  The same as floor-hollow (which see). ...

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• hollow sea

  The undulation of the waves after a gale; long hollow-jawed sea; ground-swell. ...

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• hollow shot

  Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...

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• hollow square

  The square generally used by British infantry; a formation to resist cavalry. Each side is composed ...

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• to beat all hollow

  To surpass or overcome completely; thus, "Eclipse beat Sir Henry all hollow." Also, to take wholly b...

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• top-timber hollow

  A name sometimes given to the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top-timber. ...

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• narrowing of the floor-sweep

  For this peculiar curve, see half-breadth of the rising. ...

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