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Trowel   /trˈaʊwɛl/   Listen
noun
Trowel  n.  
1.
A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2.
A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
3.
(Founding) A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade.
Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.





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"Trowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... fripon'i, -ajxo, (cards) preno. trickle : guteti. trifle : bagatelo, trivialajxo. tripe : tripo. triumph : triumf'i, -o. troop : trupo, bando. tropic : tropiko. trot : troti. trough : trogo. trousers : pantalono. trout : truto. trowel : trulo. tramp : (cards), atuto. trumpet : trumpeto. trunk : (animal) rostro; (tree) trunko; (box) kofro; (body) torso. trust : fidi. try : provi, peni. Tsar : Caro. tuber : tubero. tuft : tufo. tumbler : glaso. tumult : tumulto. tune : ario, melodio; agordi. turbot : rombfisxo. turkey : meleagro. ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer
... a shocking oath, in connection with the name of Mrs. Curtis, and started forward with his trowel as if he were about to strike ...
— Berties Home - or, the Way to be Happy • Madeline Leslie
... Foster, Sir John Macdonald—each began as a poor man. Sifton began life as a penniless lawyer. Van Horne got his foot on the first rung of the ladder hustling cars for troops in the Civil War. MacKenzie of Canada Northern fame began with a trowel; Dan Mann with an ax in the lumber woods at a period when wages were a dollar and twenty-five cents a day; Laurier with a lawyer's parchment and not a thing else in the world. Foster, the wizard of finance, taught ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut
... flower-beds were doing their best in honor of the linden festival. The white dove-house was shining with a fresh coat of paint, and the pigeons were crooning contentedly, flying down often to drink at the drip from the water tank. Mrs. Kohler, who was transplanting pansies, came up with her trowel and told Thea it was lucky to have your birthday when the lindens were in bloom, and that she must go and look at the sweet peas. Wunsch accompanied her, and as they walked between the flower-beds he took ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... At trowel, a knife, fork, and spoon, of artistically painted wood, and a pair of oars, all claim a ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood


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