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skim-coated

skim-coated is the simple past and past participle of skim-coat.

Meaning of 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

Questions about skim-coated

What is skim-coated the simple past and past participle of?
Skim-coated is the simple past and past participle of skim-coat.

Words near skim-coated in the dictionary

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

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