Trowel

Quick meaning: Trowel is a noun meaning A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

Meaning

A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

More Meanings

1. A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
2. A tool used for smoothing a mold.
3. (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
4. (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
5. (colloquial, figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.

Example Sentences

He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.

I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?

The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.

Most finish coats are troweled smooth, but sometimes you will have to add cosmetic touches to make the patch match the surrounding plaster, texturing the surface randomly or uniformly with any of a variety of tools, ranging from sponges to special trowels.

Word Forms

• trowels
• troweling
• trowelling
• troweled
• trowelled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pointing-trowel, float, jointer, scutch, tilther, tooler.

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