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Trowels
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
📖 Definitions of "Trowels"
noun
- 1
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- 2
A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
"I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?"
- 3
A tool used for smoothing a mold.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Trowels"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| shovelsnoun | A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots. |
| rakesnoun | (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor. |
| picksnoun | A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. |
| spadesnoun | (card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠. |
| hammersnoun | (soccer) Someone who supports or plays for West Ham United F.C. |
| brushesnoun | An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. |
| floatsnoun | A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. |
| bricksnoun | an indie rock band founded in New York City in the late 1980s. |
| toolsnoun | Any physical device meant to ease or do a task. |
| pointingverb | The action of the verb to point. |
| wooden | Made of wood. |
| small | Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. |
| usingverb | use; utilization |
| usedverb | In used to. |
| useverb | To utilize or employ. |
| arrowheadsnoun | The pointed part of an arrow (the weapon). |
| axenoun | A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it. |
| brick trowelnoun | a trowel used in masonry |
| chiselsnoun | A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools. |
| daggersnoun | (weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade. |
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