pipeclay
verbEtymology From pipe + clay.
1
To whiten by application of pipeclay.
- I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 24:
- The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92: