plasterer

From plaster +‎ -er.

plasterer (plural plasterers)

1. A person whose occupation is to plaster walls.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], line 125:

     Villain, thy father was a plasterer; / And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?

2. One who makes plaster casts.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

     The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.

• prealters, palterers, psalterer, replaster