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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A layer or coating of plaster.
  • noun Informal A resounding defeat; a beating.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or operation of overlaying with plaster.
  • noun The plaster-work of a building; a covering of plaster
  • noun The treatment of wines by the addition of gypsum or plaster of Paris. See plaster, v., 5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as plaster, n., 2.
  • noun The act or process of overlaying with plaster.
  • noun A covering of plaster; plasterwork.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of plaster.
  • noun The act or process of overlaying with plaster.
  • noun A covering of plaster; plasterwork.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the application of plaster

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