: to smooth, mix, or apply with or as if with a trowel
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Noun
The set includes a pruner, rake, two trowels, sprayer, along with an easy-to-store carrying case to keep it all organized.—Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2025 Allow the soil to dry out and use a garden hand trowel to gently lift the bulbs from the container.—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 May 2025
Verb
Andrew’s bumbling nature is done no favors by the padded suits and troweled makeup that never really transform Sheen, but abet the actor’s semi-comic approach.—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024 Drywall will be thinner and more uniform than plaster, which is usually troweled right up to the electrical box.—Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for trowel
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English truel, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin truella, from Latin trulla ladle
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