Definition of "lino"

But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.

1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, page 163

The third thing was the TORN lino in the kitchen, new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of lino off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear, and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of lino to chew . We are still too scared to replace the lino as the next puppy will probably do the same .

1996 July 20, Malcolm Tippett, “Dogs ...No Way”, in aus.jokes‎ (Usenet)

When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino. When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.

2002 October 30, Augie, “Frontline or Advantage for fleas?”, in aus.pets‎ (Usenet)

I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping

2010 April 25, George W Frost, “Found this old paper under the lino of a reno”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules‎ (Usenet)

Lino flagged a bit late but was right

2014 October 4, MartTheTaxi, “Twitter status”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎