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How to pronounce daub in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot
Type of defect, blemish, mar
Has types fingerprint, inkblot, splotch, blotch, fingermark, splodge
Type Words
Synonyms plaster
Type of surface, coat
Has types render-set, mortar, mud, parget, roughcast
Derivation daubing


daub the wall.
Type Words
Synonyms smear
Type of cover
Has types blood
Derivation dauber


daub the ceiling with plaster.
Type Words
Type of painting, picture
Type Words
Type of apply, put on
Verb group smear, plaster


daub paint onto the wall.
Type Words
Type of clay

Examples of daub

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More layers of straw and daub were added and the hut was then lined with straw.
From the yorkpress.co.uk
A simple church may be built of mud brick, wattle and daub, split logs or rubble.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Run along and daub swasitkas on mosques like a good little Combat 18 chappie.
From the independent.co.uk
They consist either of simple one-room houses made of wattle and daub, or log-built.
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Wattle and daub or lath and plaster are used to fill the spaces between the timbers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Daub took office in January 1995 and left office in June 2001 after Fahey was elected.
From the omaha.com
This style does require wattles to be woven for better support of the daub.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The early buildings had thatched roofs and walls of wattle and daub often whitewashed.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Wattle-and-daub houses, their roofs sealed with tar, invite snapshot-taking visitors.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Plaster: coat with plaster; "daub the wall"
  • Material used to daub walls
  • Apply to a surface; "daub paint onto the wall"
  • Smudge: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
  • An unskillful painting
  • Biskra Ouakda Airport is an airport in Algeria, located approximately 12 km north-northeast of Oumache; about 200 km south-southwest of Constantine.
  • (Daubs) Wattle and daub (or wattle-and-daub) is a building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. ...
  • A soft coating of mud, plaster etc; A crude or amateurish painting; To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes
  • A mud of clay mixture applied over wattle to strengthen and seal it.