Floorer

Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif. — a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl — made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago. ❋ Geoffrey Rogow (2010)

Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif.--a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl--made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago. ❋ Wall Street Journal (2010)

This blog must be David Gershwin's, as no self-respected 4th floorer would even know about this National League of Cities event unless they were inside the 7th CD offices. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even then, a good gallop afterwards, or a cigar and a glass of punch, with some lively fellow who is no philosopher, will do him far more good than a fagging walk of so many measured miles, with the studious companion whose head is stuffed as full of such matter as his own, and whose talk will be of disputed passages, and dispiriting anticipations of a "dead floorer" in the schools. ❋ Various (N/A)

This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre. ❋ Various (N/A)

This was something of a floorer; I felt myself grow red-hot. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

Just fancy, sir, being able to give him a floorer without helping it. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

"Why, look ye, my jolly masters, if you're up to a lark of that 'ere sort, take care you don't get a floorer; I've got a rum customer inside what I'm giving a lift to for love -- only Josh Hudson, the miller; and if he should chance to wake, I think he'll be for dusting some of your jackets." ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)

"Take that, then," said the other, and gave him a floorer; but he was prevented from falling by those around him. ❋ John Badcock (1823)

When a "seventh floorer" gets the axe, Tim makes a bold and gutsy play for the vacant spot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clearing all nine in one go is a floorer; missing them entirely prompts a shout of ❋ Londonist (2010)

Mr Mannifield said his client was a self-employed floorer and had been on his way to visit family in Turkey.

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He loved Minnesota’s flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or a floorer, a creep or a bruiser, into which categories most ambitious politicians fall. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While [Luis] is an ultimate [bencher], Courtney prefers the [solitude] of the ground, so she stays a floorer ❋ Kevin Lopes (2006)