clay-dabbing

Updated: May 26, 2025

As to Spottleover, he, too, was out of temper all the rest of the day, and when Flutethroat met him in the afternoon he found his neighbour all smeared with clay, and looking for all the world like a clay-dabbing plasterer as he was.

George Manville Fenn - Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn