Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A doughlike cement made by mixing whiting and linseed oil, used to fill holes in woodwork and secure panes of glass.
- noun A substance with a similar consistency or function.
- noun A fine lime cement used as a finishing coat on plaster.
- noun A yellowish or light brownish gray to grayish yellow or light grayish brown.
- transitive verb To fill, cover, or secure with putty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cement with putty; fill up with putty.
- noun A composition golf-ball, no longer in use.
- noun Same as
puttee . - noun A kind of paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed-oil, mixed to the consistence of dough.
- noun A powder of oxid of tin, used in polishing glass and steel: sometimes called
jewelers' putty . - noun A very fine cement, used by plasterers and stone-masons, made of lime only. See the quotation.
- noun A mixture of ground materials in which in potteries earthenware is dipped for glazing.
- noun A mixture of clay and horse-dung used in making molds in foundries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc.
- noun A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
- noun (Golf), colloq. A ball made of composition and not gutta percha.
- noun an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.
- transitive verb To cement, or stop, with putty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.
- noun A form of
cement , made fromlinseed oil andwhiting , used to fixpanes ofglass . - noun Any of a range of
similar substances . - verb transitive to fix something using putty
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
- verb apply putty in order to fix or fill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"I reckon that's what I call putty good," said the scout, a smile creeping over his bronzed face.
Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll An Old Scout
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It was called Rayedit (designed by Raytheon, the makers of the Patriot missile!), and it featured hulking cathode ray tubes sheathed in putty-colored metal and keyboards the size of Samsonite suitcases.
No more 'spiking' and 'killing' in our kinder, gentler newsroom John Kelly 2010
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Buy something in each store so that the final price of poster putty is 1.65 plus $20 for each store visited - bonus if the number exceeds three.
collage age 2009
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Silly putty is made of silicone oil and boric acid, it may be nontoxic to us, but i don't know how book pages or matte finished djs would react.
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Buy something in each store so that the final price of poster putty is 1.65 plus $20 for each store visited - bonus if the number exceeds three.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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It was called Rayedit (designed by Raytheon, the makers of the Patriot missile!), and it featured hulking cathode ray tubes sheathed in putty-colored metal and keyboards the size of Samsonite suitcases.
No more 'spiking' and 'killing': A kinder, gentler computer system John Kelly 2010
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 The putty is strong enough to hold up to 300 lbs. Â
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Ell.), which has the name putty-root, probably from the same property of gumminess and adhesiveness.
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Lime putty, which is an excellent building material, can be stored indefinitely under moist conditions.
Chapter 4 1988
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The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower.
Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis
ruzuzu commented on the word putty
These are interesting:
"n. A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc." --from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
"n. A composition golf-ball, no longer in use." --from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
January 13, 2015
qms commented on the word putty
I think the more common spelling for the gaiter is puttee. The golf ball application must refer to balls with a gutta-percha core.
January 13, 2015