daubing
present participle ofdaub
daub
verb[T]
uk/dɔːb/us/dɑːb/tospreadathickorstickyliquidon something or tocoversomething with athickorstickyliquid, oftenquicklyorcarelessly:
Thewallshad been daubedwithgraffiti.
Thebabyhad daubedbutteralloverhishairandface.
Covering and adding layers
- additive
- asphalt
- bestrew
- bind
- blanket
- blindfold
- gilt
- gum
- gumsomethingup
- inlaid
- lag
- laminate
- layer
- retile
- retread
- seasoned
- slapsomethingon
- smothersomethingin/withsomething
- tent
- wax
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Whilst the average daily rate for thatching anddaubingwas 4d per day, rates could on occasion fall to 3d.
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These lower-paid activities included rough masonry, walling, pointing, plastering,daubing, and thatching, which were evidently regarded as semi-skilled or lower-skilled occupations.
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However, by far the most common form of maintenance was the replacement of existing laths of wood and the 'daubing, breding and liming' of the walls.
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Masonry work, wall construction and repair,daubingand plastering, pointing, carpentry, glazing, plumbing, roof-tiling, thatching and general labouring tasks all featured, together with a number of allied tasks.
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There have been protests at auction sales, paint daubings and bad feelings.
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They can often take the form of racialist graffiti or thedaubingor displaying of different slogans.
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At 3 pm two officers were called to a flat on the estate to investigate a racialdaubing.
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There have been other examples of harassment, with thedaubingof councillor's houses and so on.
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It is not just the graffiti and other painting anddaubingthat goes on.
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I do not think that it goes as far as the writing of signs or thedaubingof slogans.
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To date, there have been some 103 reported cases of intimidation, threatening phone calls anddaubingof houses and about 17 arrests.
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I have no reason to believe that thedaubingof buildings and other vandalism is justified by any excuse, and it should not be stimulated by any activity.
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The inevitable consequence is that violence has occurred, not only in thedaubingof the shop with slogans, but bricks have been thrown through the windows.
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When the home was rediscovered in 1971, most of thedaubingwas lost due to age and the shrinkage of the logs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pelican consequently prepared to go to war against them bydaubinghimself with white clay as war paint.
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