plastering

plaster | American Dictionary

plaster
noun
us/ˈplæs·tər/

plasternoun (WALL COVERING)

[ U ]
a substance that is used esp. for spreading on walls and ceilings because it makes a smooth, hard surface after it dries

plasternoun (INJURY PROTECTION)

[ C ]Br
Band-Aid
plaster
verb[ T ]
us/ˈplæs·tər/

plasterverb[T] (PLACE WALL COVERING)

infml To plaster a surface or an object with something is to cover it completely or thickly:
She has plastered her bedroom walls with posters of pop singers.

Examples of plaster

plaster
In these structures the dome is made from a thin shell of curving timber members sandwiched between leadwork and plaster.
On their interiors he placed light insulating elements and then interior panelling or plaster.
These almost unpunctured walls are plastered and painted white.
If language is a building, then usage conflicts are matters of surface finish - a shade of paint here, some plaster cracks there.
The features consisted of two pits in the bedrock plastered with stucco to form subfloor basins.
After settling the final form in a clay model, it was enlarged to a fullscale set of plaster fragments in his workshop.
The rooms in these houses had thick plaster floors placed over a well-prepared base composed of small cobblestones.
It is a plaster wall, or a sheet of canvas, a panel, a screen, or a piece of paper.
Later in the 20th century, plaster was removed from most of the surviving timber-framed houses.
The grave consisted of a simple limestone slab-lined crypt originally closed by a wooden lid sealed in place with plaster.
External doors seem to be completely absent, and many ladder imprints have been found in the wall plaster at the site.
The completed 'shells', plastered and painted and indistinguishable visually, will have basic structural actions independent of their construction.
They returned to the tent with ample food and plaster bandages - but the plaster proved useless, spoiled by the damp.
The snake-handlers in these novels are usually blustering patriarchs, sometimes violent ' ' plaster saints ' ' but always charismatic - if philandering - husbands and fathers.
They were only a little larger than the human head and were made out of materials such as linen and plaster.
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Collocations withplaster

plaster

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layer of plaster
The outer layers of plaster were removed, exposing mural work from the 18th century, which covers almost all of the walls of the main nave.
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