Meaning of wax down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
2. To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
3. To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
4. To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
5. To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
6. To paste into place using wax.
7. To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.

Examples

“We're waxin' down our surfboards / We can't wait for June”

“So the next afternoon we weren't doing anything and it was fairly warm, we got rags and waxed down his plane.”

“She waxed down the floor and found a small table and matching chair at Goodwill.”

“Then, after shelling out significant cash on sufficient 44-gallon drums of polyester and epoxy resin and massive rolls of specific density fibreglass material, we proceeded to wax down and lay up the hull.”

“Looking graceful and not falling can be difficult when you're asked to wax down your skis and slide over an icy surface, or while dodging mogul mice and then stopping gracefully at the end of the run.”

“If there was even one string out of place on one of her dish towels, he would have her cut it up in rags to wax down his precious candy-apple red Cadillac Coupe de Ville.”

“The paper should be as thin and tough as possible – for example, typewriter paper, The equal sheets thus prepared must now be waxed down by aid of a hot iron on the carefully prepared wooden boards, paper side out.”

“In picking up the loops, the weaver probably used some kind of bodkin, or possibly she knew how to wax down the ends of her threads to a fine point,”

“Do not forget to wax down your bowstring periodically, as well.”

“She divided the rest of the hair into 4 equal parts, twisted each part and tied it into 3 knots. Those she waxed down to my skull with 4 pins to the knot .”

“That dark-skinned, hollow-chested, small-eyed, slight young man under medium height, with his black hair parted in the middle and always kept flat as if waxed down, was no match for the wiry, healthy lad with uncommon staying-powers and the unschooled passion of a fury.”

“And sweaty-man, there wasn't even a rumor of the Old Spice he'd used to wax down his pits that morning.”

“Sarah wished she had something to wax down her hair and flattened it with her hands to no effect.”

“I'd never attempted my own makeup and I didn't know how to wax down a brow, but it quickly became clear that the girl doing my face knew even less.”

“If the hive is suspected of being queenless, a queen-cell from another hive, with the pupa ready to hatch out, is sometimes placed in it, when, if the new queen is required, the bees will take to her, but should they have a queen and do not require a new one, they will wax down the queen-cell that was inserted so that the young queen cannot hatch out; a specimen of a cell so waxed down is exhibited.”

“By the description of his cover for the bees to wax down, it was not properly braced, as the dovetailed end is made by different manufacturers.”

“How can I insert candy without chilling bees, as their outer covering at present is a bag of cork-dust, which seems (as far as I can tell without lifting) waxed down to the frames?”

“We complied instantly with these instructions, and digging, soon found a bottle corked and waxed down, wherein was a letter from Captain Cook informing us of their arrival at this place on the 3rd instant, and departure on the 24th, and that they intended spending a few days in the entrance of the straits to look for us.”

“Solid caustic potash must always be kept in well-stoppered bottles, which when not in use may be waxed down.”

“This time Kim thought in the vernacular as he waxed down the oilskin edges of the packets.”

“Two brass caps slide on over the top and bottom attachments, and being carefully waxed down, render the apparatus air-tight during runs.”

“Beeswax served to wax down the musket lock, particularly by sealing the vent: “Our arms were fast lashed to the inside of the boat, and our locks were as well cased and waxed down as was possible; so were also our cartouche-boxes and powder-horns.”

“For delicate small-scale line-drawing, the thick blue paper, such as is used for ledgers, &c., imperial size, answers exceedingly well; but it does not bear damp-stretching without injury, and should be merely pinned or waxed down to the board.”

“Then muslin was waxed down onto the surface, to bind it, and the panel was lifted in one piece.”

“The wafers chosen were individually waxed down on microscope glass slides.”

“The specimen was now turned over and the bottom side waxed down to the base plate.”

“See how sin, even from Adam to Cain, had grown up to murder and defiance of God! See how it then waxed down to the death of all flesh in the judgment of the flood!”

“You may remember — and this is the last example I will give as I begin to wax down — there was this incredible problem back in the 1980s of the 747s across the Pacific at 40,000 feet suddenly losing all four engines in mid-flight.”

“His heart waxed down and angriness shed away.”

“At the end of the year's 366 days, if I have filled my sheet of paper with evidence of having lived with purpose, and if my candle has been lit so many times it is smutty and waxed down, I will have been a good steward of New Year's assignment.”

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