TROWEL

Trowel

A trowel is one of several similar hand tools used for digging, smoothing, or otherwise moving around small amounts of viscous or particulate material.

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trowel

Noun

  1. A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  2. A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
    I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?
  3. A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Verb

  1. To apply a substance with a trowel.
    ''He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.


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