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
Actually, the yellow-and-black dauber wasps that built the nests were no threat to humans because they never fly far enough to carry radioactive material outside the high fence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The mother mud dauber lays an egg or two in ever’ one of them cells.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
