contabulate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin contabulō (“I cover with boards”).
Verb
[edit]contabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)
- To lay floorboards.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]contabulāte