1. trowel - Noun
2. trowel - Verb
A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA Tadelakt project begins when cement board is hung in the space, then a hydraulic lime plaster is spread over the surface with a hawk and trowel. Source: Internet
Use a trowel to apply thick rows of mortar to the backerboard, then lay the tile sets spacing properly with tile spacers. Source: Internet
I’m going to lay down flattery with a trowel, then ask for what I need or want. Source: Internet
She plunged a trowel, stolen from her neighbor’s garden, into the red clay and dug furiously, stopping only to slop hunks of art into a wooden trough. Source: Internet
The trowel or spade bayonet was another multipurpose design, intended for use both as an offensive weapon as well as a digging tool for excavating entrenchments. Source: Internet
Rather than taking up their trowel and bricks to build, guns, grenades and bombs are being burnished to destroy, and the nation is bleeding out whether we like to admit it or not. Source: Internet