putty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
  2. verb apply putty in order to fix or fill
    • putty the window sash

WordNet

Put"ty noun
Etymology
F. potée, fr. pot pot; what was formerly called putty being a substance resembling what is now called putty powder, and in part made of the metal of old pots. See Pot.
Definitions
  1. A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
Put"ty transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Puttied ; present participle & verbal noun Puttying
Definitions
  1. To cement, or stop, with putty.

Webster 1913