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• Floor

  ·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 floor

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

  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.

• floor

  a flat fish. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• floor

  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

• Floor

  [Gabbatha] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• 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-hollow

  The inflected curve of the floor, extending from the keel to the back of the floor-sweep, which the ...

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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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• narrowing of the floor-sweep

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

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