rubbing down

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rubbing down

An intermediate step in finishing a painted surface; rubbing with a mild abrasive before applying the topcoat.

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No references found			A GROOM used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Fables by Aesop View in context This was disconcerting; for Joe being out, and Hugh engaged in rubbing down the chestnut cob, he designed sending on the errand, Barnaby, who had just then arrived in one of his rambles, and who, so that he thought himself employed on a grave and serious business, would go anywhere. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context Winkle with a heavy clothes-brush, indulging, during the operation, in that hissing sound which hostlers are wont to produce when engaged in rubbing down a horse. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context			rubber plant rubber plating Rubber Products rubber set rubber silencer rubber solvent rubber sponge Rubber Stock rubber tape rubber tile rubber tree rubber wheel Rubber, Natural Rubber, Synthetic Rubber, Vulcanized rubber-base paint Rubber-Bearing Plants rubber-covered steel conveyor rubber-emulsion paint rubber-tired roller Rubberizing Rubbia, Carlo rubbing rubbing block rubbing brick rubbing down rubbing oil rubbing stone rubbing varnish rubbish Rubble rubble arch rubble ashlar wall Rubble Belt rubble concrete rubble drain Rubble Drift rubble ice rubble masonry rubble stone masonry rubble tract rubble wall rubble-mound structure rubblework Rubbra Rubella Rubellite Ruben Aleksandrovich Budagov Ruben Ambartsumian Ruben Avanesov Ruben Budagov			rubbery rubbery rubbery Rubbery polymer Rubbery polymer Rubbery polymer Rubbia Rubbia Carlo Rubbia, Carlo Rubbidge RUBBIE rubbies rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing alcohol rubbing alcohol rubbing alcohol rubbing alcohol rubbing along rubbing along rubbing along rubbing along rubbing along rubbing away rubbing block rubbing brick rubbing down rubbing elbows rubbing elbows rubbing elbows rubbing elbows rubbing elbows rubbing hands rubbing hands rubbing hands rubbing hands rubbing hands rubbing into rubbing into rubbing into rubbing into rubbing into rubbing it rubbing it rubbing it rubbing it rubbing it rubbing nose rubbing nose rubbing nose rubbing nose rubbing nose rubbing noses rubbing noses rubbing noses rubbing noses rubbing noses

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