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noun

a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.

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In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.
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You can go as deep as you like, or float about on the surface.
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He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
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Yes, the minor-league baseball player memorably portrayed by Kevin Costner in Bull Durham.
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He also said police intend to put their beloved family pet, a Staffordshire bull terrier named Excalibur, to sleep.
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The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
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One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.
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I thought this young man was going to read us some of his poetry; it's too tiresome of him to stop to tell us about his bull-dog.
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And I, for one, absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog.
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Tom leaped on one side; the buffalo-bull turned short round and made another dash at him.
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