daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
dauber
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a word derived from
daub.
Example Sentences
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Tickets include entry, entertainment, dauber and one food item.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
When the mother and daughter duo began the task of fixing up the old family store, they cleared 200-300 pounds of dirt dauber nests from the ceilings and under the counters.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2014
Artist Roy, trained at Calcutta's Government School of Art, spent 15 years as a successful dauber of polite European-type landscapes that looked good in the best Indian homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
One result was that many an ill-trained dauber, many a demoralized artist whose hand was out, spent the winter of 1935-1936 at a Government easel instead of shoveling snow.
From Time Magazine Archive
And that’s how the mud dauber wasp starts out life.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
