: to smooth, mix, or apply with or as if with a trowel
trowelernoun
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Noun
More than 10,000 Amazon shoppers have scooped up this lightweight, ergonomic trowel in the past month alone.—Maggie Horton, People.com, 8 July 2025 Stick your finger into the soil, dig down with a trowel, or use a soil probe to see how deep the water has gone.—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 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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