contabulate
English
Etymology
Latin contabulō (“I cover with boards”)
Verb
contabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)
- To lay floorboards.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
- For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.
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Related terms
- contabulation
Latin
Verb
contabulāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of contabulō