plastering

[ plas-ter-ing, plah-ster- ]

/ ˈplæs tər ɪŋ, ˈplɑ stər- /

noun

the process of working with plaster.

a coating of plaster.

a decisive defeat; drubbing.

Origin of plastering

1375–1425; late Middle English (gerund). See plaster, -ing¹

Words nearby plastering

plaster bandage, plaster cast, plaster of paris, plasterboard, plastered, plastering, plasterwork, plastic, plastic art, plastic bomb, plastic bullet

Definition for plastering (2 of 2)

plaster

[ plas-ter, plah-ster ]

/ ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər /

noun

a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.

powdered gypsum.

plaster of Paris.

a solid or semisolid preparation spread upon cloth, plastic, or other material and applied to the body, especially for some healing purpose.

verb (used with object)

to cover (walls, ceilings, etc.) with plaster.

to treat with gypsum or plaster of Paris.

to lay flat like a layer of plaster.

to daub or fill with plaster or something similar.

to apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).

to overspread with something, especially thickly or excessively: a wall plastered with posters.

Informal.

to defeat decisively; trounce; drub.
to knock down or injure, as by a blow or beating.
to inflict serious damage or injury on by heavy bombing, shelling, or other means of attack.

Origin of plaster

before 1000; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin plastrum plaster (both medical and building senses), aphetic variant of Latin emplastrum < Greek émplastron salve, alteration of émplaston, neuter of émplastos daubed; see em-², -plast

OTHER WORDS FROM plaster

plas·ter·er, noun plas·ter·i·ness, noun plas·ter·like, plas·ter·y, adjective re·plas·ter, verb (used with object)

un·plas·ter, verb (used with object)

Example sentences from the Web for plastering

Just when did parents get so into plastering their kids all over their social networks?

Introducing the Internet’s New Bundle of Joy: The Baby Selfie |Charlotte Lytton |February 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He was plastering the building and he had it leaning and he saw that coming and going was spending a whole situation.

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein |Gertrude Stein
They are making a basket of bulrushes, and plastering it with bitumen.

Sermons of Christmas Evans |Joseph Cross
For the Plastering of low and moist places, they had a great many other Lib.

An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius |Vitruvius

His house was a frame building, weather-boarded with pine boards, but had no plastering within.

Fifty Years in Chains |Charles Ball
Nor did the rain cease to fall, plastering our great-coats on to our backs, streaming in rivulets from the peaks of our caps.

'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 |Maurice Genevoix

British Dictionary definitions for plastering (1 of 2)

plastering

/ (ˈplɑːstərɪŋ) /

noun

a coating or layer of plaster

British Dictionary definitions for plastering (2 of 2)

plaster

/ (ˈplɑːstə) /

noun

a mixture of lime, sand, and water, sometimes stiffened with hair or other fibres, that is applied to the surface of a wall or ceiling as a soft paste that hardens when dry

British, Australian and NZ an adhesive strip of material, usually medicated, for dressing a cut, wound, etc

short for mustard plaster, plaster of Paris

verb

to coat (a wall, ceiling, etc) with plaster

(tr) to apply like plaster she plastered make-up on her face

(tr) to cause to lie flat or to adhere

(tr) to apply a plaster cast to

(tr) slang to strike or defeat with great force

Derived forms of plaster

plasterer, noun plastery, adjective

Word Origin for plaster

Old English, from Medieval Latin plastrum medicinal salve, building plaster, via Latin from Greek emplastron curative dressing, from em- + plassein to form

Medical definitions for plastering

plaster

[ plăs′tər ]

n.

Plaster of Paris.

A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes.

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