to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football

Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task.

The Navy, besides switch boards and packings, uses quite large quantities of fibrous paints, roofing cements, asbestos floor coverings, asbestos shingles, pipe coverings, millboards and high temperature cements and asbestos brake linings; in fact, the Navy is becoming asbestosized almost completely.

There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.