Floor

(flōr), n. [A-S. flôr, flôre, Icel. flôr, L. Ger. floor, D. vloer, H. Ger. flur, allied to W. llawr, llor, floor, ground, earth, allied to clawr, clor, surface, area.]

1. The level portion or surface on which one walks in any building; as, the floor of a house, a room, or a bridge; especially, the lowest part of any room, in distinction from galleries.
2. A suite of rooms on a level in a house; a story; as, the first floor.
3. Any platform or flooring.
4. (Legislative Assemblies.) (a.) The part of the house assigned to the members. (b.) The right to speak. [U. S.]

☞ Instead of he has the floor, the English say, he is in possession of the house. 5. (Naut.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. Totten.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. FLOORED; p. pr. & vb. n. FLOORING.]

1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; hence, to put to silence by some decisive argument or retort. “Floored or crushed by him.” Coleridge.
3. To throw on the floor as done with; hence, to finish with. [College cant.]

I've floored my little-go work. Hughes.