Crossword clues for spackle
spackle
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proprietary name for a surfacing compound, 1927, probably based on German spachtel "putty knife, mastic, filler." The verb is attested from 1940. Related: Spackled; spackling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster. 2 A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fill or repair with a plastic paste. 2 (context intransitive English) To fill cracks or holes with a spackle. 3 To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle
WordNet
n. powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster [syn: spackling compound]
Usage examples of "spackle".
She found him in the library prying the lid off a can of pre-mixed Spackle while Mary Jo elled at him.
They were a complicated frieze against a spackle of frosty stars, sharp and harshly lit in the clarity of vacuum.
The smell of sheetrock and semi-gloss, of grout, spackle, sweat, and testosterone, reminded me of home.
I would spackle the holes in my memory one by one until they were invisible again.
Returning, she sanded rough spots on the wall and spackled cracks, with one ear on the music and one on the phone.
By Saturday afternoon, years of dirt had been wiped away, and every wall in the place stripped of paper, spackled, and sanded in preparation for the simple coat of white paint that Brian wanted.
The reflections of the stars spackled the sea like mica drifting through oil.
Even the spackled panorama out there was easier to digest than the phantoms she and her companions appeared to each other.
The next time Eleanor saw Erwin Dudley Strang, he was on television, his name was Earl Strong, and his complexion was frighteningly, unnaturally smooth, as if he had been lovingly spackled, buffed, and polished.
I took that first house, spackled, sanded, and painted it, then flipped it for a twenty-five-thousand-dollar profit.
From the conveniently modest-sized seas to the spackling of clear blue lakes, from rolling hills to dramatic yet easily negotiable mountains and everything in between, there were plenty of natural attractions to keep the interested visitor occupied.
She now checked the wall periodically for new breaches of privacy, filling the holes with spackling compound she kept in her locker alongside her stash of candy bars.
She would need to break out the spackling compound, but what she needed now was a few moments to untangle the threads in her mind.
Rough concrete walls were interspersed with spackled wall-board on which hurried instructions for electrician or plumber had been scribbled.
Depressed, I stared at the spackled wall two feet in front of the grille.