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Straight-lined :: Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge..

Basement :: Basement (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively..

Hautpas :: Hautpas (n.) A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Downstairs :: Downstairs (adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.

Platform :: Platform (n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop..

Whop :: Whop (v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over..

Floor :: Floor (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body..

Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..

Well :: Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole..

Scrape :: Scrape (n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen..

Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..

Mop :: Mop (v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief..

Stage :: Stage (n.) A floor or story of a house.

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..

Deafen :: Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc..

Hatchway :: Hatchway (n.) A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar..

Flooring :: Flooring (n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n..

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..

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