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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



... on with a trowel] I suppose the meaning is, that there is too heavy a mass of big words laid ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... circumstances. As there was an abundant supply of food and drink, the workmen never left their work; and amidst their continuous laughter the four walls were run up with incredible quickness, until one day Krespel cried, "Stop!" Then the workmen, laying down trowel and hammer, came down from the scaffoldings and gathered round Krespel in a circle, whilst every laughing face was asking, "Well, and what now?" "Make way!" cried Krespel; and then running to one end of the garden, he strode slowly towards the square of brick-work. ...
— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... and has watched with keen interest and satisfaction your success in overcoming the many difficulties that lay in your way. Brooklyn herself has awakened from her sleep of almost ten years, and the sound of the hammer and the saw and the ring of the trowel are heard on every hand. Owing to the enterprise, energy and self-sacrificing efforts of many of the men who are with us to-day, she is astonishing the country by the wonderful increase in population. Brooklyn can no longer be regarded ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... who worshipped flowers, was perhaps the most ineffective gardener in England. With a trowel and the best intentions he would do more damage in twenty minutes than Miss Bracy could repair in a week. She had made a paradise in spite of him, and he contented himself with assuring her that the next tenant would dig it up and find ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... fail to grasp the architect's grave problem? The Osmia is measuring; and her measure is her body. Has she quite done, this time? Oh dear no! Ten times, twenty times, at every moment, for the least particle of mortar which she lays, she repeats her mensuration, never being quite certain that her trowel is going just ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre


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