| 单词 | to mop or wipe the floor with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto mop or wipe the floor with a. The layer of boards, brick, stone, etc. in an apartment, on which people tread; the under surface of the interior of a room. to mop or wipe the floor with: see mop v.3 2b, wipe v. 10e. ΚΠ c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i He gefeoll niwol of dune on þa flor. OE Beowulf 725 On fagne flor feond treddode. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15566 & all he warrp ut i Þe flor Þe bordess. & te sillferr. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 288 Þe flor to brac vnder hem. a1400 Isumbras 653 The knyghtes..fande the golde right in the flore. 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 13 Sumtyme, playand fairsis on the flure. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 116 They dig an hole in the floar of their house. 1718 Free-thinker No. 17. 2 She..walks two or three Turns in a Fret over the Floor. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 309 He threw his glove upon the floor of the church. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 40 The stone floor was dark with moisture. < as lemmas |
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