squilgee

• ⇰ 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 pla

• ⇰ To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; <as>as, to <ex>squilgee</ex> a vessel's deck</as>.