trowel
IPA: trˈaʊwɛɫ
noun
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
verb
- (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
- (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
- (colloquial, figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
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Examples of "trowel" in Sentences
- She passed me a trowel in a tool box.
- In the summer of 2006, the a trowel was produced.
- A trowel is then used to apply the joint compound.
- The brick trowel is used to scoop and spread mortar.
- A trowel and a hose can be used to remove old nests.
- The symbol of the Wallmaker is a silver trowel or spade.
- Several types of trowel are used in concrete construction.
- The trowel is the key tool in the kit of any archaeologist.
- Use shovel and trowel to clear it, foot by foot, and rebuild.
- The archaeologist and his crew dug with shovels and hand trowels.
- The original cornerstone was placed with George Washington's trowel.
- "_Plackett_, a tool contrived as a kind of trowel for smoothing and shaping the clay.
- The trowel is the instrument with which these honours -- and these fortunes -- are won.
- My pointed trowel is the artist's brush that will stroke and pry uncover and ecpose the old mission wall.
- To build yourself, you need to know one end of the trowel from the other have some tools, some spanish & some time in country.
- General manager Rob McSporran said the company dubbed the trowel "iPood!" and registered it as a trademark in Australia in October 2006.
- "Not very; I came ashore here to see if I couldn't find some clams," added Laud, as he held up a clam-digger he carried in his hand -- a kind of trowel fixed in a shovel-handle.
- It’s a tight labor market, and we are warned by a gringo old-timer, “Every guy around this town who owns a pencil is an architect, and every guy who owns a trowel is a contractor.”