Editing Squeegee (section)

===Decks of ships===
The earliest quotations mentioning squeegees in the Oxford English Dictionary refer to their use in cleaning decks on board ship: in 1844 a "squee gee" in an American book,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/texasgulfofmexic01hous|title=Texas and the Gulf of Mexico ; or, Yachting in the New World, volume 1|first=Mrs (Matilda Charlotte)|last=Houstoun|date=February 3, 1844|publisher=London : J. Murray, 1844.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> in 1851 a "[[leather]]n squilgee" in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', and in 1867 in a British book by Admiral [[William Henry Smyth]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6Wx4_QMdN8C&pg=PA648|title=The Sailor's Word Book: The Classic Source for Over 14,000 Nautical and Naval Terms|first=W. H.|last=Smyth|date=February 2, 2010|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|isbn=9780851779720|via=Google Books}}</ref> Additionally, [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.|Richard Henry Dana]]'s 1840 memoir ''[[Two Years Before the Mast]]'' mentions “squilgeeing” in Chapter XIV.

The following are considered correct English terminologies, according to the [Canadian] Naval Terminology Standardization Committee:

* squeegee;
* deck squeegee;
* squilgee; and
* squillagee.<ref>{{cite web
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|number=1994–06–02
|title=squilgee [1 record]
|website=TERMIUM Plus®. The Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic data bank
|date=October 8, 2009
|access-date=31 July 2016}}</ref>