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flooring, vbl. n.|ˈflɔərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. floor.
1. The action of flooring or laying down a floor.
1632Sherwood, A flooring with plankes or boords, planchage. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 149 Of Flooring of Rooms. 1866Law Reports Com. Pleas 163 The plaintiff is..the patentee of certain buckle plates used for bridge flooring.
2. a. concr. The floor of a room, etc.; also, the materials of which it is made.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 63 Mosaique is..of most use in pavements and floorings. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 237 To pitch the waxen Flooring some contrive. 1754Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess. Bute 23 June, The ceiling and flooring are in good repair. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iv, The Captain, Miller, and Blake who had many notions as to the flooring, lines, and keel of a racing boat. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World i, The polished oak flooring.
b. A natural floor; a stratum.
1697Dryden Vir. Georg. i. 262 To smooth the Surface of th' unequal Ground; Lest crack'd with Summer Heats the flooring flies. 1804C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View U.S. 47 The flooring of the Miami and Clay Rivers. 1857Livingstone Trav. xxii. 428 Sandstone rock..forms the flooring of the country.
3. Malting. The operation of spreading the grain on the malt-floor, and treating it there in the required manner.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 93 Malting..the couching, sweating, and flooring. 1885H. Stopes Malt xix. 344 Flooring, this is also called spireing.
4. The action of knocking down or throwing to the ground.
1819Moore Tom Crib's Mem. Pref. (ed. 3) p. xii, Cross⁓buttocking..being as indispensable an ingredient, as nobbing, flooring, &c.
5. attrib. and Comb., as flooring-beam, flooring-board, flooring-machine, flooring-stone, flooring-timber; flooring-clamp (see quot.).
1847–8H. Miller First Impr. v. (1857) 81 *Flooring beams connect the walls of a skeleton building.
1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale F. vii. 95 So it will in *Flooring-boards, notwithstanding they are nailed down ever so fast. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §173 Flooring boards 10s. per square.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 889/1 *Flooring-clamp, an implement for closing up the joints of flooring-boards.
1847H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 372 There are now in operation within the corporate limits..2 *flooring machines. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/1 Flooring machine, a machine for preparing floorboards.
1671J. Webster Metallogr. vii. 117 Quarries of Stone..where they get *flooring-stones for paving of houses. |