floorcloth

American  

[flawr-klawth, -kloth, flohr-] / ˈflɔrˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

floorcloths plural

1. a cloth for washing or wiping floors.

2. a piece of cloth or the like, as crash, drugget, or linoleum, used with or without a carpet for covering a floor.

3. ground cloth.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• floorcloths
  plural

Etymology

Origin of floorcloth

First recorded in 1740–50; floor + cloth

Example Sentences

Kamptulicon, kamp-tū′li-kon, n. a ground cork and caoutchouc floorcloth.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

She rose quietly and washed out her floorcloth, and stood drying her hands on the roller towel which hung on the kitchen door.

From Purple Springs by McClung, Nellie L.

It was a neat, dull little house, on the shady side of the way, with new, narrow floorcloth in the passage, and new, narrow stair-carpets up to the first floor. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

Dark drops fell on the floorcloth one after another, with a sound of ticking growing fast and furious like the pulse of an insane clock. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

In one part of the room an old woman was kneeling down scrubbing the floorcloth.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)