塗る: to paint

パンにバターを塗ぬって食たべた。

I spread butter on the bread and ate it.

漆うるしをぬった櫛くしやうつわもあり、約やく九千きゅうせん年ねん前まえの漆うるしの製品せいひんも見みつかっています。

There were also combs and vessels coated with lacquer, and lacquer products about 9,000 years old have been found.

二人ふたりが貝かいの粉こなを、母乳ぼにゅうのような汁しるでといてぬると、オオナムヂは、立派りっぱな若者わかものになって生き返いきかえりました。

The two mixed powdered shell with a milk-like liquid and applied it, and Ōnamuji came back to life as a fine young man.