- (v.t.) To swab, press or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a vessel's deck.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "squilgee" 28 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/squilgee/definitions/2065618> |