: to smooth, mix, or apply with or as if with a trowel
trowelernoun
Examples of trowel in a Sentence
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Noun
This 2-foot long wall hanger is designed to hold small garden tools like trowels or claws and the tilt back design helps keep tools from falling off the rack.—Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2024 Four workers with trowels are soon dismantling the blocks.—Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Verb
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 The excess water goes to the surface as the concrete is troweled, creating tiny tunnels that remain as the mix hardens.—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for trowel
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English truel, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin truella, from Latin trulla ladle
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