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Swab

noun

Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.

Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors. Synonyms: mop, swob.

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"Swab" Quotes from Famous Books

... the enterprise, cased in tight blue pantaloons that fitted him like his skin, over which were drawn long well-polished Hessian boots, each with a formidable tassel at top, and his coat was buttoned close up to the chin, with a blaz-, ing swab on the right shoulder, while a laced cocked hat and dress sword completed his equipment. But, alas! when we were accounted for on board of the old Torch, there was a fearful dilapidation of his external man. First of all, his inexpressibles ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... o'clock in the morning the gray fog grew grayer with the early dawning; and as I gazed with weary eyes into the vague unknown that shut us in, Booden roused him from his booze, and seizing the tiller from my hand, bawled: "'Bout ship, you swab! we're on the Farralones!" And sure enough, there loomed right under our starboard quarter a group of conical rocks, steeply rising from the restless blue sea. Their wild white sides were crowded with chattering sea-fowl; and far above, like a faint nimbus ...

— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson

Words linked to "Swab" : apply, cleaning implement, dust mop, put on, wipe up, cleaning device, dry mop, implement, sponge mop, cleaning equipment, mop handle, mop up, dustmop