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trowel

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trowel/ˈtraʊəl/

▶noun

1 a small tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster.

2 a small tool with a curved scoop for lifting plants or earth.

▶verb (trowels, trowelling, trowelled; US trowels, troweling, troweled) apply or spread with or as if with a trowel.

– origin ME: from OFr. truele, from med. L. truella, alt. of L. trulla ‘scoop’.

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