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trowel

[trou-uhl] / ˈtraʊ əl /


NOUN
shovel
Synonyms
STRONG


VERB
shovel
Synonyms


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Mr Rowe was carrying a Japanese-made trowel in its sheath, a small Japanese gardener's sickle and a peeling knife, along with a trug of vegetables.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

We used a hand trowel to collect samples in Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu in late March.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

The team of researchers used a trowel to shave 1 to 2 centimeters of snow from the surface of 130 polar bear prints left near Alaska’s North Slope.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023

Taking the trowel the king begins to mortar the long joints of the keystone.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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