The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Squilgees

Sea Terms

A piece of flat board about fifteen inches long, one inch thick, and four inches wide, having a narrow length of projecting hard rubber fitted in a groove in the under edge; through a hole in the center of the flat of the board a handle is shipped, and the instrument is used for scraping the water from the decks by pushing the rubber edge along the surface of the planks.

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