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A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.

• TOUCHPAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• Touchable
  Capable of being touched; tangible.
• Touchback
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• Touch-box
  A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
• Touchdown
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
• Touchhole
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• Floorheads
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• Touchiness
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• Floorless
  Having no floor.
• Touch-me-not
  See Impatiens.
• Floorwalker
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• Touch-needle
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

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