Float

a. To cause to float or pa by something; to cause to be conveyed on water; as, the ve el floated off with the tide. -To flood; to inundate; to submerge; to overflow. "Venice looks, at a distance, like a great town half floated by a deluge - Add is on. (Plastering.) To damp and level the surface of a wall, ., with a float frequently wetted. Floated work , plastering smoothed and levelled by means of a float.