Usually means: Material for coating or molding walls.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plaster: Merriam-Webster
  3. plaster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plaster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plaster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plaster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plaster, plaster: Wordnik
  8. plaster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Plaster, plaster: Wiktionary
  10. plaster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plaster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plaster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. plaster: Dictionary.com
  14. plaster (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plaster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plaster (band), Plaster (disambiguation), Plaster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plaster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plaster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plaster: Rhymezone
  20. plaster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plaster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Plaster: Britih-American Dictionary
  23. plaster: FreeDictionary.org
  24. plaster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. plaster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. plaster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plaster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaster: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. plaster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plaster: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaster, plaster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Plaster: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See plastered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
noun:  (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
noun:  (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco.
noun:  (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
noun:  (uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
verb:  (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
verb:  (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
noun:  A surname.

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