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SKIMCOAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle

Example:

he skimcoated the drywall

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "skimcoat" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Domain category:

masonry (the craft of a mason)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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