floorwise

adv, adj — 2 senses

floorwise

adv

Etymology From floor + -wise.

1

Nonce word, Poetic Like a floor.

While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:

floorwise

adj

Etymology From floor + -wise.

1

India, Nonstandard Based on, or in terms of, the floor.

floorwise building plans; floorwise area calculations

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