Crossword clues for squeegee
squeegee
- Contemporary panhandler's prop
- Film attacker?
- Sponge alternative
- Tool with a blade
- Drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)
- T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top
- Window cleaner's rubber-edged tool
- Sweden's ruler losing new letter for a window-cleaner
- Something to mop up geese flying over Quebec
- Implement used by window-cleaners
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squilgee \Squil"gee\ (skw[i^]l"j[-e]), 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. [Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wooden scraping instrument with a rubber blade," 1844, a nautical word originally, perhaps from squeege "to press" (1782), an alteration of squeeze (v.). Later in photography, then window-washing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water. 2 (context slang English) A person who cleans the windscreen of a vehicle stopped in traffic then demands payment from the driver. 3 (context printing English) A tool used in silk-screen printing for forcing the ink through the stencil and thus printing the desired image. vb. (context transitive English) To clean with a squeegee.
WordNet
n. T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)
v. wipe with a squeegee; "squeegee the windows"
[also: squilgee]
Wikipedia
A squeegee, squilgee or sometimes squimjim, is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control the flow of liquid on a flat surface. It is used for cleaning and in printing.
The earliest written references to squeegees date from the mid-19th century and concern deck-cleaning tools, some with leather rather than rubber blades. The name "squeegee" may come from the word "squeege", meaning press or squeeze, which was first recorded in 1783. The closely related "squeedging" was reportedly first used in 1782, in the Covent Garden Theatre, during the performing of the comedy "Which is the man?" by Hannah Cowley.
Usage examples of "squeegee".
The hitcher was turned back toward the window, inspecting the pumps, solemn as soldiers, the coiled hoses, the stained rags, the squeegee the color of gum tissue.
He took a final pull and emptied the bottle, shoved it back into his pocket, and picked up the big squeegee that hung on the tiled wall.
Finally, very, very carefully, he removed the film, hung it up with clothes pins, and used a squeegee to remove the last drips from the film.
When I walked in with the stretcher, they handed me a squeegee broom and told me to go to work.
It wrapped itself around a thin, mauve-faced bearded man, who was beating at it with a squeegee stick, the kind of squeegee that people like him use to smear across car windshields at traffic lights.
Then, as if a squeegee had been wiped down it, the single face came bright and clear, and just as the darkness returned she caressed her lips with her tongue.
Thorn had finished filling the tank, he came like a conscientious attendant to treat the windshield with a squeegee no one had bothered to lock away.
The joker greeted Brennan cordially as Brennan approached, setting the butt of his long-handled squeegee on the floor and leaning on it as if it were a spear.
Quasiman dropped the squeegee as the hand holding it suddenly vanished.
Gritting her teeth, she latched the nozzle for automatic filling and reached for the squeegee soaking in the pail of cleaning liquid at the other end of the island.
Michaele slammed the squeegee on top of the pump and with jerky movements replaced the nozzle in its holder.
Every few seconds one of the lobster claws would reach around and squeegee the raindrops from the front of the clear plastic boxes.
Sylvie squeegeed egg yolk with her toast and folded the toast into her mouth.
The cop squeegeed the water from his face, using the edge of his hand.
Thanks to her trampling, the water was squeegeeing in and out of his flesh.