rub

To polish varnish, rub with a felt pad, powdered pumice-stone and water.

He will sneak along the edge of the pillow and rub his hands together in front of him, and then he's ready.

Some repairers use a hastily made solution of powdered colour such as burnt umber, and paint or rub it into the wood.

And now, look, I rub my foot over the circles and they are gone, and there is only the path again.

She was not quite ready to rub shoulders with common humanity.

The rub is not in getting the decision made but in getting it pronounced.

Gramma worries all the time for fear he has rheumatism, and nobody to rub on liniment, or make him wear the right underclothes.

Clean it well, take out the brains, rub it with a handful of salt, and two ounces of saltpetre.

Then there was the chickens to feed, and the stockings were to rub.

There was not a cent left; not one single coin to rub against another.