[f. the sb.]
1. trans. To press, squeeze, or force, with a squeegee.
1885. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Rec., Ser. IV. 346/2. When cold, squeegee the emulsion … through muslin. Ibid., 411/2. A piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. 49. Take a print, put it face down on the glass and lightly squeegee it until it lies flat.
b. With advs, and preps., as on, out, together.
1883. Hardwich’s Photogr. Chem., 347. It is then ‘squeegeed’ down on the glass and developed.
1889. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., II. 324. The two surfaces can be brought into contact and squegeed together. Ibid. (1890), III. 239. It can be turned over and squeegeed out flat.
2. To scrape with a squeegee; = SQUILGEE v.
1886. All Year Round, 4 Sept., 104. The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed,’ and swabbed.
Hence Squeegeed ppl. a., Squeegeeing vbl. sb.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. 435. The squeegeeing process … is unsuitable for it.
1894. Brit. Jrnl. Photogr., XLI. 11. The squeegeeing is then gone on with.
1904. W. P. Drury, Peradventures Priv. Pagett, 10. A sloppy road between two squeegeed banks o’ mud.
