Definition of floor

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Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story.

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Grating :: Grating (n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats..
Stalagmitic :: Stalagmite (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material..
Spatter :: Spatter (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud..
Overhead :: Overhead (adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2..
Pace :: Pace (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall..
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
Groundling :: Groundling (n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches..
Floorage :: Floorage (n.) Floor space.
Chesses :: Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge..
Deck :: Deck (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks..
Floor :: Floor (n.) A story of a building. See Story.
Apron :: Apron (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
Coble :: Coble (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England..
Substructure :: Substruction (n.) Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Flooring :: Flooring (n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
Parlor :: Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..
Pave :: Pave (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court..
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