trowel
Other forms: trowels; troweled; troweling; trowelled; trowelling
A trowel is a tool for digging small holes or spreading plaster. If you're an avid gardener (or an apprentice bricklayer), you probably own a trowel.
Gardeners use trowels to dig shallow troughs for planting seeds, bulbs, or small plants. Gardening trowels are basically small shovels. When you're building a stone wall or grouting tile, your trowel will look a bit different—it will be flatter and possibly triangular in shape. The Late Latin source of trowel, truella, means "small ladle or dipper."
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a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materialstypes:garden trowela trowel used by gardenersplastering trowela trowel used to spread and smooth plasterpointing trowela trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cementslicka trowel used to make a surface slicktype of:hand toola tool used with workers' hands
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use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work
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