FLOUNDER

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species.

2.
n.

A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

3.
v.

To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton.

4.
n.

The act of floundering.


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