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trowel
noun as in shovel
Strong match
verb as in delve
Example Sentences
Escaping workers left roof tiles neatly stacked; their pots of lime mortar are still filled, waiting to be used; their trowels and pickaxes remain, although the wooden handles have long since rotted away.
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.
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.
Sian Edwards, his wife, used to bang her gardening trowel on the shell to shake off loose earth.
Mrs Edwards said she used to bang her trowel on the bomb to remove earth after gardening.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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