Definitions for trowel

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trowel trow·el

Spelling: [trou-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtraʊ əl/

Trowel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in trowel (elortw).

Definitions for trowel

noun

1. any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
2. a similar tool with a curved, scooplike blade, used in gardening for taking up plants, turning up earth, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply, shape, smooth, or dig with or as if with a trowel.

Origin of trowel

1300-50; Middle English Old French truelle Late Latin truella, equivalent to Latin tru(a) ladle + -ella -elle

Examples for trowel

The trowel is the instrument with which these honours—and these fortunes—are won.

“It is well they gave the trowel to you instead of me,” said a trembling old man.

He gallantly offered the trowel to Maria Clara, but she refused, with a smile.

But they waited until he had gone, and then they started with their baskets, trowel, and garden-fork.

Ibarra offered the trowel to the curate, who descended slowly in his turn.

Then he absolutely refused to put his hand to a spade or a trowel.

I asked him if he filled his pies with a trowel and you ought to have heard him sputter.

"He must first receive the trowel," whispered one of the brothers.

A garden; and I could dig the pond if I had brought the trowel.

The mixed mortar is then applied with a trowel in a workmanlike manner.