Spackle

Description

A quick-drying, premixed, plasterlike material. Spackle is used for patching holes and cracks in plaster. Originally a trademarked term, the word spackle is also generally used to refer to any spackling compounds.

Synonyms and Related Terms

spackling compound; joint cement

Authority

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000