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skim-coating

skim-coating is the present participle and gerund 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-coating

What is skim-coating the present participle and gerund of?
Skim-coating is the present participle and gerund of skim-coat.

Words near skim-coating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skim-coating (page history and authors); skim-coat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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