The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squeegee \Squee"gee\ (skw[=e]"j[-e]), n.
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 plates, etc. [Written also squilgee,
squillagee.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squilgee \Squil"gee\ (skw[i^]l"j[-e]), n.
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 plates, etc. [Written also squillgee,
squillagee, squeegee.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squilgee \Squil"gee\ (skw[i^]l"j[-e]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Squilgeed (skw[i^]l"j[=e]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Squilgeeing.]
To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a
vessel's deck.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]