Plastering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLASTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cover (a wall, ceiling, or other structure) with plaster
• coat or cover something with (a substance), especially to an extent considered excessive
• make (hair) lie flat by applying a liquid to it
• display widely and conspicuously
• apply a plaster cast or medical plaster to (a part of the body).
• bomb or shell (a target) heavily
NOUN:
• the act of covering with plaster
• a soft mixture of sand and cement and sometimes lime with water, for spreading on walls, ceilings, or other structures, to form a smooth hard surface when dried
• a hard white substance made by the addition of water to powdered and partly dehydrated gypsum, used for holding broken bones in place and making sculptures and casts
• the powder from which plaster of Paris is made.
• an adhesive strip of material for covering cuts and wounds
• a bandage on which a poultice or liniment is spread for application.
• the act of plastering
• Same as Plaster, n., 2.
• The act or process of overlaying with plaster.
• A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• the application of plaster
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with plaster (a mixture of lime, sand, and water)

Words related to PLASTERING

plaster9 plastered12 plasterings14 plasters10

Words that contain PLASTERING

plasterings14 beplastering17 emplastering17 replastering15

How to use PLASTERING in a sentence

• When it came to the plastering of the walls, Mr Spelman, after giving them full directions, left the two boys to do that between them.
• During the night the dew moistened the sand, and when I awoke in the morning I found myself encased in a plastering which could not be removed for days.
• Unfortunately, the plastering mania, which has robbed the interior of so many French churches of their venerable air, has not spared this one.
• But there was neither chimney nor plastering, for Heaton had neither bricks nor lime.
• All did very well, but the stone was found to be much the preferable material, especially where the plastering within was furred off from the walls.
• It discharged instantly, and shattered the plastering of the stairway, making it fly in all directions.
• I commenced by plastering up the entrance to their present dwelling with clay, leaving only room to admit the bowl of my pipe.
• He had then built a log cabin, plastering its chinks with clay, and had set up a tall zigzag rail fence around the scene of his havoc, to keep the pigs and cattle out.
• There was probably little thought of plastering walls during the first two decades, and when plastering was adopted, clay, or clay mixed with oyster-shell lime, was first used.
• One day he was plastering the inner walls of the cells in the dormitory of the Brotherhood with soft mortar in company with another Clerk.
• On such soils this is most cheaply applied in the air-slaked form, such as is used in plastering and in quantities to effect the end sought.
• Without that, the rooms are liable to dampness, which would penetrate through the stone into the inside plastering unless cut off by an open space of air between.
• In a stone, or brick house, the inside walls should be firred off for plastering.
• The placing of the frames of the octagon windows and the plastering of the interior of the dome are approaching completion.
• This was roughly built, with no attempt to impart finish to its outer face, either by careful laying of the masonry or by plastering.
• The general rule of applying the interior plastering of the kiva on a base of masonry has been violated in this example.
• In many places the adobe plastering originally applied to the faces of these cornices, as well as to the walls, has been washed away, exposing the whole construction.
• The outer end of the lower pole is supported from the roof beams by a cord or rope, the latter being embedded in the mud plastering with which the hood is finished.
• On July 27 Michael Angelo paid Rosselli thirty golden ducats, full weight, for rough plastering and other details.
• Such plastering is found throughout the region, but it is much more abundant in the modern than in the ancient work.
• The interior plastering of kivas was always much more carefully done than that of any other walls.
• The floor of the tunnel and the sides were smoothly plastered, but the plastering does not appear to have been subjected to the action of fire.
• The interior plastering of the kiva is not smoke-blackened, but the coat next the surface is stained, as is also the third coat underneath.
• The inside of the wall is carried up perpendicularly, and the loam plastering inside becomes, after the first burning, like a brick wall.
• Sullen at this punishment, she took a nail and began to bore holes in the plastering.
• The men have begun to push work on the house, and it is expected that the plastering will be done this week.
• The plastering no doubt is executed as a preventive of fire, arson in these hills being a common form of revenge.
• Just then a bit of plastering fell from the ceiling and hit him squarely upon the head.
• Winifred Child shrank farther into her corner, plastering herself against the wall of the elevator, and turning her face away, for the newcomers were Lord Raygan and Ena Rolls.
• He was plastering the building and he had it leaning and he saw that coming and going was spending a whole situation.
• The plastering is off in two of the rooms up stairs, and a part of the roof has fallen in over the bedroom and wood-shed.
• The radicals are away off at one side, and the liberals as far away from them as they can get, and both sides plastering each other with mud.
• All this is done by the women, as well as the plastering of the inside walls and the making of the plaster floors.

Similar words containing PLASTER without suffix ing

plaster9 plasters10 plastery13 beplaster13 emplaster13 plastered12 plasterer11 replaster11 beplasters14 emplasters14 plasterers12 replasters12 plasterier12 beplastered16 emplastered16 plasterings14 plasterwork20 replastered14 shinplaster16 unplastered14 plasteriest13 beplastering17 emplastering17 plasterboard17 plasteriness14 plasterstone14 plasterworks21 replastering15 shinplasters17 plasterboards18 plasterstones15 plasterinesses16

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