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Definition of 'trowel'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel ?
A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Derived terms
* pointing-trowel
Verb
To apply a substance with a trowel.
- ''He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
* 2014 , Steve Rose, " Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review ", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
- 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.
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