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skim coats

skim coats is the plural of skim coat.

Meaning of skim coat

Noun

skim coat (plural skim coats)

  1. A thin layer of plaster, glue, plastic, or other substance applied over a surface in order to cover imperfections and make it smoother.
    • 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. Then sand again, and apply a second skim coat, if needed.1990, Mindy Drucker, Pierre Finkelstein, Recipes for Surfaces, →ISBN, page 56

Questions about skim coats

What is skim coats the plural of?
Skim coats is the plural of skim coat.

Words near skim coats in the dictionary

  1. skilsies
  2. skilts
  3. skilvings
  4. skim
  5. skim coat
  6. skim coats
  7. skim milk
  8. skim milks
  9. skim off
  10. skim pit
  11. skim pits

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