rubbering

It was then varnished using a medieval "rubbering" technique, where the varnish is applied in circular movements using a hard cotton ball.

Instrument lost for 700 years finds a voice again 2007

It was then varnished using a medieval "rubbering" technique, where the varnish is applied in circular movements using a hard cotton ball.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

When the phone rang someone in the other households was sure to listen in it was called rubbering or rubber necking.

Google Thinks It Knows Your Friends - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Say, did you hear me putting one over on these goats that are always rubbering in on party-wires?

Main Street 2004

His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,

The Shooting of Dan McGrew 2000

"What _are_ you rubbering at, Heavy?" demanded Helen, inelegantly.

Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Alice B. Emerson

"James," said McEwan, "get on to the makeup of the crowd round our lady, and compare it with the specimens rubbering the little Berber."

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

I walk around and walk around rubbering at mummies and bones and -- well, I ain't kiddin ', but they was among the three most interesting days I ever put in.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

Say, did you hear me putting one over on these goats that are always rubbering in on party-wires?

Main Street 1920

Say, did you hear me putting one over on these goats that are always rubbering in on party-wires?

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918