...to winter in Florida... (to spend the winter in Florida) ...to bank the profit... ...to wheel the shopping cart... ...to air the laundry... ...to water the lawn... ...to fire the pottery... ...to ground yourself before touching the circuit board... ...to glue the broken pieces together, to cement the relationship, to paste the picture into the scrapbook...

There are a lot of slang terms that are like this, like to cheese (it) - can either mean to run from the cops "cheese it, it's the fuzz" or more recently it can mean to cheat in a video game. to bog (it) - An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground. To be bogged is to be stuck in bog. to inch (it) - To make minor movements or adjustments. to tax (it) - Steal something.

Two examples from English of the 1600s: "the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die..." (Deuteronomy 22:21, King James version) ...to shoe a horse... "...he doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe him himself."--Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice," Act I, Scene 1.

The list could become endless since English so readily turns nouns into verbs (and vice versa). The three examples you mention are all common in colloquial use. Many purists dislike more recent neologisms. Some people, for example, hate to see "Impact" used as a verb, but "contact" received the same harsh reception some years back and now its use as a verb is generally accepted. You might find this link helpful: http://grammar.about.com/od/grammarfaq/f/verbingfaq.htm

Hmm - I am not sure what you mean. Those are phrasal verbs. Are you looking for more examples of phrasal verbs or do you mean something else. The only other example of verbs from nouns that I can think of is the tendency of Americans to take a noun and turn it into a verb form, such as,- 'to medal', meaning to win a medal at, for example the Olympics. Personally this drives me crazy, but there you are - English is an amazingly flexible language.