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Meanings of trowel in English
One of many kinds of small hand tools used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material; common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.
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1
The enterprising click of hammer or trowel falls constantly on the ear.
2
She stooped and with a trowel turned over the soft black soil.
3
She dashed her trowel to the garden path and clenched her fists.
4
Widow Schmalz put down the watering can and let the trowel drop.
5
We have brought a basket and trowel, and can examine them thoroughly.
6
Drops ticked the plastic sheeting as I exposed it with my trowel.
7
Taking a trowel from the backpack, I crossed back to the mound.
8
After cleaning both the trowel and the screen, I inserted my blade.
9
Jesse lifted the trowel from the backpack and got on his knees.
10
Though Maggie kept her eyes down, the rhythm of her trowel changed.
11
I used my trowel to clear dirt, widening the area around it.
12
Oh, gritty-natured Guerilla regiments of the hod, the trowel, and the brick-kiln!
13
She stabbed her gardening trowel into a hump of dirt and stood.
14
SCRAPING in fussy, irritating strokes, the trowel hit something matted and black.
15
The air was vibrating with the ring of the trowel and the hammer.
16
On the second trowel dive the large cauldron began to produce.
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Portuguese
Catalan
Trowel through the time
Trowel across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common