dauber

• The nuthatch, called here the “mud-dauber,” from its habit of narrowing the hole of a starling's old nest, with mud, for its own use as a nesting-place, is a more common bird in the Forest than in Worcestershire. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• One of 'em was a feller built with kind of a thin waist like a mud-dauber and dressed fancy as Mrs. Astor's horse. —  062 - The Pirate's Ghost
• I've seen threads here that explain that shellac is a resin made up of dried bug parts, which is usually applied by dissolving it in ethanol and applying with a dauber (and a little oil for smoothness), intermittently polishing it out with alcohol to make it shiny. —  Mandolin Cafe News
• Former Nevada County planning commissioner and retired teacher Kurt Lorenz relates in the Yuba Watershed Institute publication, Tree Rings, Spring 2008, his experience watching a pair of Jays taking turns knocking down mud dauber wasp nests from the eaves of his house. —  The Union - All Categories
• The surface of the plate is covered with ink, put on by means of an ink-roller, or perhaps the old-fashioned dauber, and the ink is thoroughly worked into the lines or depressions in the plate. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing

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