plaister

plaister

(ˈpleɪstə)
n
Scot plaster
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Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaister - using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.
"Why then, upon my soul," cries Benjamin, "it would require a great deal of art to keep you from being well after a very few dressings; and if you will suffer me to apply some salve of mine, I will answer for the success." Jones gave his consent, and the plaister was applied accordingly.
He stuck to the colt like a plaister [sic], up ridges, down gullies; whooping and yelling with the wildest glee.
We're a collective three piece with me - Thomas James - on guitar and vocals, Sion Walsh on drums and backing vocals, Rhys Plaister on guitar and backing vocals.
This is the reason why the learning of verbal analogies is a crucial, more personalized and humanistic trend in language teaching (Plaister, 1981).
Meanwhile, one 1764 newspaper recommended a 'plaister for a sore throat' which was made from melted mutton suet, rosin, and beeswax.
In July we told how 14st security guard Allan Plaister was knocked off his bike by a divebombing gull, leaving him on crutches.
(1.b) [A]nd make a plaister thereof, and lay it vpon the sinewes that be stiffe, and it will make them to stretch (EMEMT, Dawson, GoodHuswifes Iewell, 1596, f.
Elton: the remainder of a piece of "court plaister" and "the end of an old pencil" (Austen 338-39).
"Our new ink provides superior performance on a wide range of substrates including HDPE and LDP.E.- said Nick Plaister, product manager for CU at Domino.