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trowel

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trowel
1. any of various small hand tools having a flat metal blade attached to a handle, used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
2. a similar tool with a curved blade used by gardeners for lifting plants, etc.
trowel [′trau̇l]
(design engineering)
Any of various hand tools consisting of a wide, flat or curved blade with a short wooden handle; used by gardeners, plasterers, and bricklayers.
trowel
trowel
A flat hand tool having a broad steel blade; used to apply, spread, and shape plaster or mortar or to impart a relatively smooth surface to concrete floors and other unformed concrete surfaces in the final stages of finishing operations.
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When he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
"It is this," I answered, producing a trowel from beneath the folds of my roquelaire.
The Cask Of Amontillado by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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