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floor(2) (iou)



floor verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Cover or provide with a floor or floors; form or serve as the floor of. LME.
S. Pepys Looking over the joiners, flooring my dining-room. C. Vancouver The..sleeping place floored with flat stones. J. Buchan A cup in the hills, floored..with short, crisp pasture.
verb trans. Bring to the floor or ground; knock down; cause to fall. M17.
Byron The usual excuse of floored equestrians. B. Malamud The Deputy Warden floored the Fixer with a blow.
verb trans. Overcome, get the better of; defeat; confound, nonplus, baffle. Also (arch. colloq.), get through (a piece of work) successfully. E19.
Disraeli I was the only man who could floor O'Connell. R. Church Any word of more than one syllable floored me. N. Annan A..first-class man..could be expected to floor the bookwork in the early papers.
b. verb intrans. Commit a fatal blunder, fail. Long rare or obsolete. M19.
verb trans. Place upon (something) as a floor. rare. L19.
E. B. Tylor The doctrine of a Heaven, floored upon a firmament.
verb trans. Hang (a picture) low on the wall. rare. L19.
floorer noun a person who or thing which floors; esp. (a) a knock-down blow; (b) a confounding or baffling thing: L18.
flooring noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) a floor of a room etc.; the materials of which it is made; (c) in the malting process, the operation of spreading the grain on the malt-floor and treating it there: LME.