ppl. a. [f. FLOOR v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Provided with a floor.

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1551.  Huloet, Floored, or dressed with boordes. Contabulatus.

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1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., 70. They passed over the river upon a floored bridge of ships, and possessed themselves of the enemies land.

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1809.  Southey, in Quarterly Review, II. 52. We have imported the breed of flees among them, which are become a grevious nuisance, and will continue to be so till the natives live in floored houses, and have learned domestic as well as personal cleanliness.

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  2.  Brought to the ground, overthrown; also fig. overpowered, done for.

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1821.  Byron, 12 Dec., in Moore, Life & Lett. (1833), III. 301. The horse did not fall—the usual excuse of floored equestrians.

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1857.  Dickens, Lett., 7 Feb. (1880), II. 11. For about ten minutes after his death, on each occasion of that event occurring, Richard Wardour was in a floored condition.

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