Glossary
Plasterer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential plasterer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key plasterer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in plasterer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Apprenticeship
- Paid structured training.
- Blueprint
- Construction drawing.
- Brown coat
- Second coat.
- Darby
- Long float.
- EIFS
- Exterior insulation and finish system.
- Finish coat
- Final coat.
- Hawk
- Plaster holder.
- Journeyman
- Fully trained worker.
- Keying
- Plaster gripping lath.
- Lath
- Base that holds plaster.
- OSHA
- Workplace safety agency.
- Punch list
- Final fix list.
- Scratch coat
- First plaster coat.
- Stucco
- Exterior cement plaster.
- Veneer plaster
- Thin plaster on blueboard.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Plasterer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Plasterer training.
Browse terms from every career in our career glossary.