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(1):

(v. t.) To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a vessel's deck.

(2):

(n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, - used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Squilgee'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/squilgee.html. 1828.
 
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