plasterer's float

1. 1.

   a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

   Synonymsfloat

   Broaderhand tool

Questions about plasterer's float

What does plasterer's float mean?

plasterer's float means "a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco".

What is another word for plasterer's float?

Close synonyms include float. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plasterer's float a common word?

plasterer's float is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.