: a board made of several plies of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a hardened gypsum plaster core and used especially as wallboard
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Lovely owns a drywall company in Hampton and does a lot of offshore fishing in Long Island Sound and also near Misquamicut.
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
This bill provides new resources and stability for the fund ensuring that infrastructure projects can move forward without delay, and that subcontractors like drywall crews, electricians, and concrete companies have steady work.
—Rusty Plowman, Denver Post, 23 July 2025
Everything from the student who had recently graduated high school to a Mexican father of 11 who was picked up on the way to his drywall business in North Carolina.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 16 July 2025
The mural ended up behind drywall during a 1986 renovation, but was rescued and restored to public view in 2015.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
This bill provides new resources and stability for the fund ensuring that infrastructure projects can move forward without delay, and that subcontractors like drywall crews, electricians, and concrete companies have steady work.
—Rusty Plowman, Denver Post, 23 July 2025
Everything from the student who had recently graduated high school to a Mexican father of 11 who was picked up on the way to his drywall business in North Carolina.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 16 July 2025
The mural ended up behind drywall during a 1986 renovation, but was rescued and restored to public view in 2015.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
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“Drywall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drywall. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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drywall
noun
dry·wall
ˈdrī-ˌwȯl 
: a board made of layers of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a plaster core
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