Definitions for plastering

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plastering plas·ter·ing

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

IPA: /ˈplæs tər ɪŋ, ˈplɑ stər-/

Plastering is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1648 anagrams from letters in plastering (aegilnprst).

Definitions for plastering

noun

1. the process of working with plaster.
2. a coating of plaster.
3. a decisive defeat; drubbing.
4. 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.
5. powdered gypsum.
6. plaster of Paris.
7. 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)

1. to cover (walls, ceilings, etc.) with plaster.
2. to treat with gypsum or plaster of Paris.
3. to lay flat like a layer of plaster.
4. to daub or fill with plaster or something similar.
5. to apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).
6. to overspread with something, especially thickly or excessively:
7. 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 plastering

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

Examples for plastering

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

For Blink was plastering him with the water-marks of joy and anxiety.

At least Pete and I didn't think it was worth while to do all the plastering and painting they wanted!

He was fixing a board to put over a hole in the plastering in his chamber.

Most of the plastering done at this time is what is called “laid-on” work.

Grounds should be placed on the inside openings, and elsewhere for plastering.

In one or two instances the remains of a fine coat of plastering was noticed.

This is because wood-work is more difficult to keep clean than plastering.

This we also burnt with fire, after we had protected the fresh flint by plastering it with clay.

With the plastering of this mud the careful circularity of the work begins.