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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plasterer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Howe, an apprentice plasterer, was fined a total of £100 for the theft and the assault.
▪ In 1738 he took John Dawson, a plasterer, as his apprentice.
▪ Mr Travers, a plasterer, who had lost his house when he had been made bankrupt, opened the window slowly.
▪ She was the daughter of James Wood, plasterer, and his wife Elizabeth Stothard.
▪ The state rooms were redecorated by plasterers from Holyrood.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plasterer

Plasterer \Plas"ter*er\, n.

  1. One who applies plaster or mortar. ``Thy father was a plasterer.''
    --Shak.

  2. One who makes plaster casts. ``The plasterer doth make his figures by addition.''
    --Sir H. Wotton.

Wiktionary
plasterer

n. 1 A person whose occupation is to plaster walls. 2 One who makes plaster casts.

WordNet
plasterer

n. a worker skilled in applying plaster

Wikipedia
Plasterer

A plasterer is a tradesman who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. The process of creating plasterwork, called plastering, has been used in building construction for centuries.

Usage examples of "plasterer".

The courtyard was full of the wagons and carts and draft animals of stonemasons and carpenters and plasterers and gilders and such, and the conveyances of farmers and tradesmen purveying provender and necessities to the inhabitants of the palace city, and the mounts and carriages and porter-borne palanquins of other visitors come on other business from near and far.

Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.

South, to locate and hire, or buy, the best available slave artisans and craftsmen, masons, carpenters, ironworkers, and plasterers to build The Forks of Cypress.

As we have seen Nature anticipating the plasterer in fibro-cartilage, so we see her beforehand with the glassblower in her dealings with the cell.

As soon as painters, plasterers, and paperhangers were out of the way, Grail and Thyrza went to the house to decide what furniture it would be necessary to buy.

He was flanked by a merry band of carpenters and roofers, plasterers and stonemasons.

The tools of the plasterers and stonecutters, and the ease with which they wielded them, fascinated Tobin.

It had a large complement of carpenters, paperers, plasterers, tilers, and coopers.

Trade guilds and corporations bear the following titles, drawn up in 1789, from the files of complaints: apothecaries, jewelers and watch-makers, booksellers and printers, master-barbers, grocers, wax and candle-makers, bakers and tailors, master shoemakers, eating house-keepers, inn-keepers and hatters, master-masons and plasterers in lime and cement, master-joiners, coopers and cabinet-makers, master-cutlers, armorers, and polishers.

The fleshers and brewers and smiths and weavers and skinners and saddlers and salters and cappers and masons and cutlers and fletchers and plasterers and armourers and porters and water carriers, and the one-eyed man who had called at Bogle House selling fumigating pans.

Haitian plasterers, Cuban drywallers, Miccosukee plumbersGod only knows what all Willie was demanding!

Haitian plasterers, Cuban drywallers, Miccosukee plumbers—God only knows what all Willie was demanding!

Once he had decided on a story, he would get his artist in residence to draw each scene, which he then gave to the art director, who would call in the studio's carpenters, plasterers and painters, and the sets would be built.

She was stunningly beautiful, but with the kind of calculated beauty that is achieved by a team of skilled artists, manicurists, plasterers, corsetiers and dressmakers and three hours' solid work every morning.

When he is on the griddle, the Supreme Grand Master thought, Brother Plasterer will not be lonely.