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  • verb Present participle of beeswax.

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Examples

  • She has no plans to stop beeswaxing, in the same way that most people with more conventional libraries think of them as organic, works in progress.

    Waxing Poetic Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • And beeswaxing threads is mostly not done to keep ends from unraveling, but for much different reasons.

    Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • And beeswaxing threads is mostly not done to keep ends from unraveling, but for much different reasons.

    Book talk - Mary C. Beaudry: Findings a stitch in time 2009

  • Later he pleaded guilty to beeswaxing the seat of the boys in front of him in chapel, much to the detriment of their trousers and the destruction of the dignity of Sunday worship.

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • Soon too we observed that the Dutch ships began to scrape and clean their sides, painting and polishing and beeswaxing 'em inside and out, bending new sails, and the very Mariners putting on half a dozen pair of new breeches apiece.

    The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

  • Ungodly old Ard-rey, Cronwall beeswaxing the convulsion box. domm, who, entiringly as he continues highly-fictional, tumulous under his chthonic exterior but plain Mr Tumulty in muftilife,2 in his an-tisipiences as in his recognisances, is, (Dominic

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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