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daub

an unskilful or crude painting
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daub

1. A material such as clay, mortar, mud, or plaster (often mixed with straw), used as infilling between logs, as a coating over walls, or as plaster in wattle-and-daub.
2. To coat roughly with plaster or mud.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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A MAN who daubed 'no blacks' on a Salford man's front door can't explain why he did it, a court heard.
The students daubed in colored powder enjoyed every bit of the celebration.
Pictures posted on Twitter by the cemetery on Saturday showed the marble gravestone daubed with political slogans.
SWASTIKAS have been daubed on a Cardiff playground on Boxing Day.
ANIMAL rights vandals have daubed the word 'Prison' on the entrance sign to the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park.
VANDALS have daubed carriages belonging to the historic Flying Scotsman with graffiti on the Severn Valley Railway.
Alliance's David Armitage said he had contacted Belfast City Council to get it urgently removed after it was daubed on walls in Dunraven Avenue and Glenbrook Avenue.
Other sites in Dumbarton were daubed with pro-SNP slogans between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Houses, phone boxes and a pub in Caernarfon have been daubed with graffiti that reads "council tax is slavery".
Checha Watani -- At least six persons including three women and two children have sustained burn injuries after a youngster allegedly daubed acid on them over rejection of his marriage proposal in a village of Checha Watani.
AN arrest has been made after obscene graffiti was daubed around Hemlington.
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