Meaning

A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.
2. A tool consisting of a roller attached to a handle, used for applying pressure, removing liquid, etc.
3. (slang) A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
4. (transitive) Sometimes followed by down, out, together, etc.: to press or spread (a substance) using a squeegee (noun sense); also, to use a squeegee on (something, such as a surface).
5. (intransitive) To use a squeegee.

Example Sentences

This machine, […] consists of a timber cylinder revolving on an axle, […] The cylinder is armed externally with diagonally-fixed scrapers, squeegees, or brushes.

Transparencies on glass, for use in the Stereoscope, the magic lantern, or for window decoration, may very easily be made by the Carbon process. […] The Carbon tissue, previously cut to the dimensions of the glass, is printed as previously directed, with a very narrow safe-edge: it is then "squeegeed" down on the glass and developed.

[T]he full quantity of gelatine is added, viz. 20 gr. per ounce, stirring well up from the bottom, and pouring into a dish to set. When cold, squeegee the emulsion (after being scraped up from the bottom of the dish with a card) through muslin into a solution of potash bichromate, stir it up with a strip of glass, and leave for ½ hour or more; […]

By degrees the ship began to assume the appearance which one expects a British man-of-war to wear. […] The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed’, and swabbed, till every speck was removed from them, with about a quarter of an inch of solid wood as well; […]

Having regulated the temperature, the following articles will be required:– […] a rubber squeegee, and a piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing; […]

Word Forms

• squeegees
• squeegeeing
• squeegeed

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