Word Finder - plastering

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To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

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to plaster a wall

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To apply a plaster to.

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to plaster a wound

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To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

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Her face was plastered with mud.

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To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

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The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

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To smooth over.

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The act or process of overlaying with plaster.

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A covering of plaster; plasterwork.

He wanted some horse hair to do some plastering.

Lewis started his machine plastering career in Germany in 1981.

In very short girders the shear must be computed, and in long girders the deflexion, particularly the flexure from the variable load, since a flexure of more than of the length is liable to crack the plastering of the ceilings carried by the girders.

Look out for steep tiled gables, overhanging upper stories and mellow brick and plastering.

Old skills such as lime plastering, thatching, traditional carpentry, and stonemasonry are still extant but scarce.

I learned plastering, carpentry, wiring the lot.

Participants on courses will learn the age-old skills of using lime in building and pointing, plastering, roughcasting and limewashing.

A temp expedient to make it clean - still needs plastering or mortar flattening.

For internal plastering a combination of wood and sponge floats and a plasterers trowel can be used to create a smooth polished finish.

This is the technique of molding designs into the external plastering of a wall.

No longer are the essential skills, which include stone masonry, fibrous plastering and lead sheet working passed down from generation to generation.

At the end of your chosen plastering course we DON'T get you to take down your completed plastering course we DON'T get you to take down your completed plastering work either.

At the end of your chosen plastering course we DON'T get you to take down your completed plastering work either.

On our weekend, 5 day and 10 day plastering courses you will receive the full amount of hands on plastering training specified.

The mud plastering was then applied both inside and outside, and many fragments of this roofing were found in the rooms.

Lime and clay plastering, carpentry, possibly plumbing and electrics.

The word is also used of a mixture of sand, clay and straw, used for making casting-moulds and bricks, and for plastering walls, &c. (see Soil).

Triton also offers a further BBA approved membrane for walls - Plaster Base - which has an undercut stud design for direct plastering.

This summer I'll be plastering, painting, shopping for vintage iron hardware, and adding period window boxes and exterior lighting to the front of the house.

Modern builders can get this look by using a technique called "French plastering."

Plaster walls are a common feature, but you don't need to go to the expense of stuccoing or plastering your walls.

Plastering on a smile, Jessi crossed to her and hugged her hard enough that Ashley objected.

At the funeral of men there is much mourning, the female relatives cutting or tearing their hair off and plastering their faces with clay, but for women no public ceremonies took place.

It generally makes its nest in a hollow branch, plastering up the opening with clay, leaving only a circular hole just large enough to afford entrance and exit; and the interior contains a bed of dry leaves or the filmy flakes of the inner bark of a fir or cedar, on which the eggs are laid.

Generally the Coptic Christians were content to build their churches within the ancient temples, plastering over or effacing the sculptures which were nearest to the ground and in the way of the worshippers.

Plastering appears to have been known at an early date, and when the juice of the grapes was too thin for the production of a good wine, it was occasionally boiled down with a view to concentration.

The main result of plastering is that the soluble tartrates in the wine are decomposed, forming insoluble tartrate of lime and soluble sulphate of potash.

I would not be one of those who will foolishly drive a nail into mere lath and plastering; such a deed would keep me awake nights.