floorer

/flawr-er, flohr-/US // ˈflɔr ər, ˈfloʊr- //

铺路者,铺设者,铺路机,铺路石

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who lays floors.
- : a person, blow, etc., that knocks someone or something to the floor.
- : Informal. something that beats, overwhelms, or confounds.

His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer.
This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre.
Were your drawing rooms and your second floorer on terms of intimacy?
"Take that, then," said the other, and gave him a floorer; but he was prevented from falling by those around him.
Floorer, a blow sufficiently strong to knock a man down, or bring him to the floor.