squilgee

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tool in the form of a mop or swab, or a blade with a long handle, used for cleaning and/or drying a vessel's deck; a type of squeegee.

   “A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: […] Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.”

2. fiil Synonym of squeegee (“to use a (squilgee or) squeegee on (something, such as a surface)”).