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Definition of Squilgee
1. 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.
2. v. t. To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a vessel's deck.
Definition of Squilgee
1. to squeegee [v -GEED, -GEEING, -GEES] - See also: squeegee
Medical Definition of Squilgee
1. 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. Alternative forms: squillgee, squillagee, squeegee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squilgee
Literary usage of Squilgee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"When it is above the topsail yard, out squilgee, haul out the tack, run up the
halliards and finally trim down the sheet. The fore and main are generally ..."
2. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"When it is above the topsail yard, out squilgee, haul out the tack, run up the
halliards and finally trim down the sheet. To Take it In. Order, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1846)
"Oh yes! do, Mr. squilgee,' exclaimed DUMP ; ' I 've heard so much about ...
So squilgee commenced : ' It was a calm, clear winter's night in 18 — ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"Deuced lucky for us, is n't it, squilgee, ... LORD, squilgee ! how my teeth chatter !
What shall we do, now ? We can 't climb the wall, can we ? ..."
5. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"When halfway up between the deck and lower yard, haul out the squilgee, and as
the sail falls, haul out on the outhaul, and hoist it up taut to the topmast ..."
6. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1904)
"The squilgee is a nautical hoe with two blades of strong sole leather. It is pushed.
After this process the deck is laboriously swabbed. ..."
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