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Flitch Frame. See " Deal Frames." 



Flitterns are young oak trees, the bark of which is richer in tannin 

 than older trees. 



Float. (1) A small raft of wood; (2) A t imber- wagon ; (3) A 

 plasterer's tool of wood or steel that of wood is used to give 

 a " rough " or " dry face " ; that of steel, a " smooth, glossy 

 face." See " Trowel." 



Floated Deals. A term applied to Canadian pine and spruce deals 

 conveyed on rafts for shipment, which are sometimes a little 

 discoloured in transit. 



Floating or Floated. Architectural terms applied to the second 

 of three coats of plaster on walls, expressed (1) " rendered," 

 (2) "floated," and (3) "set" (see "Rendered" and " Set "). 

 In the instance of plastering on laths, (1) is expressed by 

 " pricking up " (ivhich see}. 



Floating Policy. The insurance in a lump sum of goods in 

 different places. 



Flogging. The two hardest kinds of work a carpenter was called 

 upon to perform, before machinery in the latter half of the 

 nineteenth century stepped in to relieve him of the major part 

 of it, were " flogging floor-boards," taking them from the 

 saw and preparing them for laying now done by floor- 

 board planing or chipping machines and " sticking mould- 

 ings," i.e., working them. See " Stick and Sticking." 



Floor. The level ground, brick, stone, wood or other substance 

 that forms the lower or horizontal face of a covered building, 

 or an apartment below or above ground. 



Floor or Flooring Boards. Boards of various thickness and 

 fashion in width. In the eighteenth, and first part of the 

 nineteenth, century they were broad, the reverse being the 

 present order of the day. Since machinery has been em- 

 ployed in the " flogging " or dressing, they are usually 

 " planed, tongued and grooved." 



Flooring and Matchboarding Machines. High-speed planing 

 machines for producing tongued and grooved flooring and 

 matching. Usually provided with a fixed knife to give a 

 smooth surface to the face side of the board and fitted with 

 powerful feed gear. The pressures are also different to those 

 used on a moulding machine. 



Flooring, A Square Of. In a prepared or manufactured form 

 is 100 superficial feet. The customary square of flooring, 

 which was for many years followed in the London auction 

 sales, is now abolished. The following were the number of 

 lineal feet that were reckoned for the various widths : 



