'Sticking plaster' definitions:
Definition of 'sticking plaster'
(from WordNet)
noun
Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds [syn: plaster, adhesive plaster, sticking plaster]
Definition of 'Sticking plaster'
From: GCIDE
- Sticking \Stick"ing\, a. & n. from Stick, v. [1913 Webster]
- Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.]
- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster]
- But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
- Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above. [1913 Webster]