Trowel
noun
A small hand tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster.
The mason used a trowel to spread the cement.
Often appears as...
- spread with a trowel
- trowel in hand
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small hand tool with a curved scoop, used by gardeners for planting and weeding.
She used her trowel to dig a hole for the new plant.
Often appears as...
- gardening trowel
- trowel for digging
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To use a trowel to spread, smooth, or shape.
He troweled the concrete evenly across the surface.
Often appears as...
- trowel on plaster
- trowel off excess
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small hand tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster.
The mason used a trowel to spread the cement.
Often appears as...
- spread with a trowel
- trowel in hand
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small hand tool with a curved scoop, used by gardeners for planting and weeding.
She used her trowel to dig a hole for the new plant.
Often appears as...
- gardening trowel
- trowel for digging
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To use a trowel to spread, smooth, or shape.
He troweled the concrete evenly across the surface.
Often appears as...
- trowel on plaster
- trowel off excess
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Use
Trowel is associated with professional construction or masonry work.
Contractors often use a trowel for applying tile adhesive.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Application
A trowel is not just for spreading, but also for applying materials like mortar.
The builder used a trowel to apply a layer of mortar under the bricks.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Design
Shape of the trowel's blade is designed for efficient spreading and shaping.
His trowel had a pointed tip that made it easy to spread the grout.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Use
Trowel is associated with professional construction or masonry work.
Contractors often use a trowel for applying tile adhesive.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Application
A trowel is not just for spreading, but also for applying materials like mortar.
The builder used a trowel to apply a layer of mortar under the bricks.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Design
Shape of the trowel's blade is designed for efficient spreading and shaping.
His trowel had a pointed tip that made it easy to spread the grout.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Use
Trowel is associated with professional construction or masonry work.
Contractors often use a trowel for applying tile adhesive.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Application
A trowel is not just for spreading, but also for applying materials like mortar.
The builder used a trowel to apply a layer of mortar under the bricks.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Design
Shape of the trowel's blade is designed for efficient spreading and shaping.
His trowel had a pointed tip that made it easy to spread the grout.
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The Doctor Who Can...
or whether or not you're a male or a female so especially when the females are in easter's when they're ready to have a baby then the males are regularly going to be could i groom you how's it going you know laying it on with a trowel all of the kind of like you know this is the chimp equivalent of bringing flowers is
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Are athletes really...
down a specially fabricated carpet designed to allow him to travel as fast as humanly possible. Jesse Owens, on the other hand, ran on cinders, the ash from burnt wood, and that soft surface stole far more energy from his legs as he ran. Rather than blocks, Jesse Owens had a gardening trowel
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Ancient Whale Bones PIPE...
can carry in a backpack hammers trowels and brushes the team discovers the skeleton of another ancient whale the question is could this species be the elusive
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The Doctor Who Can...
or whether or not you're a male or a female so especially when the females are in easter's when they're ready to have a baby then the males are regularly going to be could i groom you how's it going you know laying it on with a trowel all of the kind of like you know this is the chimp equivalent of bringing flowers is
Video examples
Are athletes really...
down a specially fabricated carpet designed to allow him to travel as fast as humanly possible. Jesse Owens, on the other hand, ran on cinders, the ash from burnt wood, and that soft surface stole far more energy from his legs as he ran. Rather than blocks, Jesse Owens had a gardening trowel
Video examples
Ancient Whale Bones PIPE...
can carry in a backpack hammers trowels and brushes the team discovers the skeleton of another ancient whale the question is could this species be the elusive
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Quote examples
David Means
American Writer
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.
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Elliot Perlman
Australian Author
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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Tony Robinson
English Actor
Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.
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Emma Tennant
British Novelist
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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P. G. Wodehouse
English Writer
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
Quote examples
David Means
American Writer
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.
Quote examples
Elliot Perlman
Australian Author
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Quote examples
Tony Robinson
English Actor
Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.
Quote examples
Emma Tennant
British Novelist
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.
Quote examples
Simon McBurney
English Actor
The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.
Quote examples
Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Quote examples
P. G. Wodehouse
English Writer
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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