It's made from beetles somehow and is a beautiful glittery golden/brown honey colour in flake form. I've only ever sold it, not used it, so I don't know what colour it is on wood, but it's supposed to give a hard, smooth, glowy surface.
The options don't cover it for me. I don't use it in conversation. I don't remember ever reading it at all, except here. However, I picked that option since I've heard it used in conversation. (... but very rarely, since I seldom discuss woodwork or fights.)
I just realised that my post wasn't clear that I'd never heard of the word. I occasionally do posts like this when I'm betaing and I run across a word I don't know.
I had no idea this meant anything other than a wood polish made from beetles. Clearly I have been neglecting the cricket - as in the sport, not the beetle.
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Date: 2008-06-22 04:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-22 05:03 am (UTC)It's also a wood finish - it usually comes in flakes, which you dissolve and then paint on the wood.
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Date: 2008-06-22 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-06-23 01:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-22 05:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-23 01:36 am (UTC)I have to admit that I mostly picked this up from and used it around older relatives. So is in common current usage in Oz?
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Date: 2008-06-23 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-05 08:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-06-27 09:37 pm (UTC)I like zebra's answer best :)
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Date: 2008-06-27 09:39 pm (UTC)