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US
/ˈtɹaʊwɛɫ/
]
[ UK /tɹˈaʊəl/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈaʊəl/ ]
VERB
- use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work
NOUN
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
How To Use trowel In A Sentence
- To build yourself, you need to know one end of the trowel from the other have some tools, some spanish & some time in country. Houses in Lake Cjhapala
- The trowel is the key tool in the kit of any archaeologist. 2009 Field Report 2 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison
- First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
- The traditional gardeners' tools of spades, forks and trowels have been replaced by sketchpads, hammers and nails.
- He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
- These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks.
- This ‘lays the floor in,’ creating the best conditions for final troweling operations.
- For roughly cutting bricks the large trowel is used; for neater work such as facings, the bolster and club-hammer; the cold chisel is for general cutting away, and for chases and holes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally. The Song of The Dodo
- Probably one of the most-used small tools is the trowel, which is ideal for digging small holes for planting and transplanting annuals, vegetables and other smaller plants.