Verb (used with object) : a wall plastered with posters. From Dictionary.com.
The Jets' defensive backs are working on "plastering" themselves to receivers because Steelers quarterback. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"The rooms had a single coat of what was then called plastering, composed of frozen mud, and a very thin coating at that. From Wordnik.com. [Omaha, the Prairie City] Reference
That the robin | is plastering his nest | hard by. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
It is used in the place of plastering for inside walls. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
There was no plastering in the interior of these rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
The inner plastering has fallen, exposing the rough wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
"I do a lot of hollering when they are plastering me up.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
She clapped her hand to her brow, plastering a curl there. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Each coat or plastering is defined by a film of smoke-blackened surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
Google is also trying to bring in cash by plastering ads all over YouTube. From Wordnik.com. [Watch the Funny Kittens!] Reference
O'Donnell had a field day with the term, plastering it on Castle as King RINO. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Palin Proves Again She's the Democrats Best Friend] Reference
The wall plastering was from ½ in. to ¾ in. thick; it was applied in two coats. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
We know of a nurse plastering an infant's body with this soap, so that it was blistered. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The cost of wall and floor plastering was 44.4 cts. per square yard, itemized as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The interior of the kiva shows a number of successive coats of plastering -- at least eight. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
He gave Lupe an encouraging thump on the shoulder, before plastering an aid pack over the cut. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
On the island, other beavers were plastering the spaces between the trees with mud and leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference
One day she was busy standing on a box plastering a wall when the warning cry came, "Run, Ma! run!". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
For the benefit of the gas fitter, the piping should be tested again after the plastering is completed. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
Graham has been busy plastering the holes in the walls of the house, first filling them in with stone wedges. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
In several cases the plastering had been stamped with an implement, probably made of split cane of large size. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The space under the roof is utilized by a series of school-rooms, each with falling plastering and "ratty" floors. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Such plastering is found throughout the region, but it is much more abundant in the modern than in the ancient work. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
The plastering stage was beginning when the agent in charge one day appeared conducting a young woman over the premises. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
The tavern at which we stopped was an unfinished frame building with no plastering, and sash without glass in the windows. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
When the plastering was finished and the gilding applied, this would form, as seen from below, a handsome frame to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Two weeks had to be given up to the plastering of the remodelled house, and all the furniture was revarnished by their own hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The dry mortar is mixed with water to proper consistency for plastering, and is applied as a plaster to the surfaces to be waterproofed. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
And at one place there was a mud fight in progress -- laughing, staggering men plastering the stuff over the new clothes they had looted. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
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