The Collaborative International Dictionary
mud-dauber
mud-dauber \mud"-daub`er\, mud dauber \mud" daub`er\, n. A wasp of the family Sphegidae ( Sphecidae) which builds a nest of mud and stores insects and spiders in it; a digger-wasp.
Usage examples of "mud-dauber".
It was no corruption of his regular name, but stemmed rather from his one-time interest in mud-dauber wasps.
One of ‘em was a feller built with kind of a thin waist like a mud-dauber and dressed fancy as Mrs.
Some were built in part of timber brought up from the south, using one or two walls of an older shell so that the wooden structures resembled the nests of mud-dauber wasps plastered to the stone.
A dirty mop in one corner and old mud-dauber wasps' nests under the eaves.