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ˈplasterer, † plaisterer
[f. plaster, plaister v. + -er1.]
1. One who works with or in plaster.
a. One who plasters buildings.
α1393Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 120 In solucione facta Ricardo Plasterer et fratri suo in parte salarii ejus pro parietibus..plastrandis. 1415in York Myst. Introd. 19 Ordo paginarum ludi Corporis Cristi..Plasterers. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 97 Against the excessiue takyng of Masons, Carpenters, Tilers, Plasterers and other laborers. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4050/4 Any Plasterers desirous to Perform the Work in the Great Hall. 1847Smeaton Builder's Man. 118 The Plasterer..His duty is to cover the naked timbers and brickwork in ceilings and walls.
β1350–1Rolls of Parlt. II. 234/1 Item, plaisterers & autres ouverours des mures d'argill. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 15 §4 Any..Bricklayer, Plaisterer, Joyner, Hardhewer, Sawyer. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 140 Villaine, thy Father was a Playsterer. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 161 ⁋4 The plaisterer having..obliterated, by his white-wash, all the smoky memorials which former tenants had left. 1822J. MacDonald Mem. J. Benson 468 The existence of that Chapel is..owing to William Beacock, a plaisterer.
b. One who moulds or casts figures in plaster.
α1615W. Gedde (title) Booke of Sundry Draughtes, principally serving for Glasiers, and not impertinent for Plasterers and Gardiners. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 294 Plastique is not only under Sculpture, but indeed very Sculpture itself: but with this difference; that the Plasterer doth make his Figures by Addition. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 376 The plasterers of the present day cast all their ornaments in Plaster of Paris.
β1668–9Pepys Diary 10 Feb., To the plaisterer's at Charing Cross, that casts heads and bodies in plaister.
c. Sporting slang. (See plaster v. 3.)
1883[see plaster v. 3].
2. Name of a S. African digger-wasp: see quot.
1857Livingstone Trav. xxvii. 539 A hymenopterous insect called the plasterer (Pelopœus Eckloni) which in its habits resembles somewhat the mason-bee. It..may be observed coming into houses, carrying in its forelegs a pellet of soft plaster about the size of a pea. |