† floathingn.
Obsolete. rare.
A thin stratum.
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1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 185 I first lay upon the Bars small Wood or Whins, then a Floathing of small Coals, then Stones.
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