Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arrangement of open troughs on the bottom of a room or vault for sweating hides.
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Examples
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The roof of cloud fled upwards, the water-floor zoomed closer, their eyes opened.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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As I dipped along, my head was enveloped in the cloud; but bending over the skiff, I could see far up the stream between a mist-ceiling and a water-floor, as through a long, low room.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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In the hall on the water-floor of the palace, where they were kept waiting for their gondola a while, she seemed to shrink even from the small, surly greetings with which people whose thoughts are on higher things permit themselves to recognize fellow-beings of their acquaintance in coming out of church.
The Lady of the Aroostook William Dean Howells 1878
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Thought of songs whose flame-winged feet have trod the unfooted water-floor
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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