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1472 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 78 (MED) Pro discis vocatis puty disches et scopis emptis pro cementariis.

a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 131 With them putte was soft dyett, which name wee still conserve in a wett and liquid morter for cementing stones together by Masons called Puttey.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 145 To mingle water and lime and not to temper it too thicke, but to make it thinne like unto puttie.

1748 B. Langley London Prices 33 Fine Mortar, called Putty, for rubbed and gauged Works, made of Lime only.

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 47 What the bricklayers call fine stuff, or putty. [Note] Putty is lime slacked, and, while warm, dissolved in water, and strained through a sieve.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 612 A thin and smooth coat spread over it, consisting of lime only, or, as the workmen call it, putty, or set.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1201 The mortar used for the white lines [in pointing] is what is technically called ‘putty’, that is to say, plasterer's putty, and not glazier's putty.

1944 W. Morgan in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ix. 300/1 Purchased either in lump form and slaked to putty on the job—the putty being allowed to mature for three weeks or more before being used.

1976 Leonardo 9 189/2 For portable mosaics, lighter cementing materials may be used, for instance a certain mastic, not glazier's putty but a kind of plasterer's putty.

1996 Chem. in Brit. Sept. 29/3 We opted to use an alternative longer term sacrificial plaster made of lime putty mixed with sepiolite clay, porous chalk, and Bath lime-stone aggregates.