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skim-coat

skim-coat verb: to apply a skim coat.

Verb

skim-coat (third-person singular simple present skim-coats, present participle skim-coating, simple past and past participle skim-coated)

  1. To apply a skim coat.
    • You can skim-coat the piece with spackling comound, following the length of its grain and dragging the knife over the surface at a slight angle so that you fill in only the grain.1990, Mindy Drucker, Pierre Finkelstein, Recipes for Surfaces, →ISBN, page 56
    • The best way to avoid the problem of photographing is to skim-coat the entire surface after the third coat of joint comound has dried.2002, Myron R. Ferguson, Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results, →ISBN, page 159

Forms of skim-coat

third-person singular presentskim-coats
present participleskim-coating
past participleskim-coated
pastskim-coated

Questions about skim-coat

What does skim-coat mean?
Skim-coat means to apply a skim coat.
What part of speech is skim-coat?
Skim-coat is a verb.
What is the past tense of skim-coat?
The past tense of skim-coat is skim-coated.

Words near skim-coat in the dictionary

  1. skim milks
  2. skim off
  3. skim pit
  4. skim pits
  5. skim through
  6. skim-coat
  7. skim-coated
  8. skim-coating
  9. skim-coats
  10. skim-read
  11. skim-reading

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