单词 | squilgee |
释义 | squilgeen. Nautical. (See quots. 1867 –1875 and cf. squeegee n. 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > mopping or swabbing > mop or swab swipple14.. mapplea1406 malkin1440 mop1496 makron1552 swabber1606 swab1787 swab-stick1839 file1851 squilgee1851 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xciv. 466 Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squilgee, or Squillage, a small swab made of untwisted yarns. Figuratively, a lazy mean fellow. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2295/2 Squilgee, an instrument like a hoe, covered with leather, to rub the decks after washing. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xvi. 68 Swabs and squiligees had been flung down. Derivatives squilgee v. to use a squilgee; to swab, clean, press, etc., with a squilgee; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > clean by scraping [verb (transitive)] > scrape with squeegee squeegee1886 squilgee1905 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide vii. 147 That doctor squilgeein' my maintop with his physic stuff has made me feel A1 again. squilgeeing n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun] > scraping with squeegee squilgeeing1840 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 110 The washing, swabbing, squilgeeing, &c., etc. lasts..until eight o'clock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1840 |
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