What does trowel mean?

Definitions for trowel
ˈtraʊ əltrow·el

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trowelverb

    a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials

  2. trowelverb

    use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work

Wiktionary

  1. trowelnoun

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

  2. trowelnoun

    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?

  3. trowelnoun

    A tool used for smoothing a mold.

  4. trowelverb

    To apply a subtsance with a trowel.

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

  5. Etymology: From truel, from truelle, from Late truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua 'ladle'

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Trowelnoun

    A trowel is a tool to take up the mortar with, and spread it on the bricks; with which also they cut the bricks to such lengths as they have occasion, and also stop the joints. Joseph Moxon

    Etymology: truelle, Fr. trulla, Lat.

    Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
    —— Sport! of what colour?
    —— What colour, madam? how shall I answer you?
    —— As wit and fortune will.
    —— Or as the destinies decree.
    —— Well said, that was laid on with a trowel. William Shakespeare.

    This was dext’rous at his trowel,
    That was bred to kill a cow well. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Trowel

    A trowel is a small hand tool 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. A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors.

ChatGPT

  1. trowel

    A trowel is a small handheld tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply, spread, shape and smooth loose or fluid material such as plaster, cement, mortar or dirt. It is commonly used in construction, masonry, gardening, and archaeology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trowelnoun

    a mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them

  2. Trowelnoun

    a gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc

  3. Trowelnoun

    a tool used for smoothing a mold

Wikidata

  1. Trowel

    A trowel is one of several similar hand tools used for digging, smoothing, or otherwise moving around small amounts of viscous or particulate material.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trowel

    trow′el, n. a tool used in spreading mortar, paint, &c., and in gardening.—v.t. to dress with a trowel.-Lay on with a trowel, to spread thickly: to flatter grossly. [O. Fr. truelle—L. trulla, dim. of trua, a ladle.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TROWEL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trowel is ranked #138304 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Trowel surname appeared 121 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Trowel.

    84.3% or 102 total occurrences were Black.
    7.4% or 9 total occurrences were White.
    4.9% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Anagrams for trowel »

  1. rowlet

  2. wolter

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trowel in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trowel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of trowel in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    I saw him backstage and he was putting it on with a trowel.

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