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putty

About 0.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
  2. noun Any of a range of similar substances. An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc. A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
  3. noun An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
  4. noun A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
  5. noun A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.
  6. adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.
  7. verb To fix or fill using putty.
  8. noun Alternative form of puttee (“strip of cloth wound round the leg”).

Similar words

putty knife glazier's putty spackling paste spackle puntil puntel puntilion puntee glazier's point ponty

Often followed by

knife in and or is to powder with for

Word family

puttied putties puttying puttyless puttylike

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