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Definition of trowel in English: trowelnounPlural trowels ˈtraʊəlˈtraʊ(ə)l 1A small handheld tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster. 镘刀，泥刀，抹子 Example sentencesExamples - It's a veritable hardware store of saw blades, pickaxe blades, trowels and awls.
- The technique is very simple, use a rubber faced trowel to spread the grout and a cotton cloth to clean the excess grout from the tiles afterwards.
- Crevice trowels have the narrowest blades, about 1 1/4 inches wide.
- Use a putty knife or a small notched trowel to apply adhesive to the back of the tile - your tile dealer can help you with the right adhesive for your situation - and press the tile into place.
- In some cases an additional texture coat of finish material is applied over the initial finish coat and tooled with a trowel or other tool.
- Using a notched trowel and working in small sections, spread 1/4 inch of grout or tile adhesive on the table surface.
- Once the tile is flexible, apply adhesive to the floor with a notched trowel and drop the tile into place.
- Using your chalk line as a guide, spread the mortar with a notched trowel over a 2x5-foot section of the floor.
- Use a small trowel to spread plaster onto a piece of muslin.
- Using a trowel, apply plaster over the hole covering the patch and filling the entire hole.
- Wet the joint and then apply new mortar into the joint with a small masonry trowel or putty knife.
- Plasters and stuccos are spread by hand or trowel, or sprayed on with a mechanical sprayer or pump.
- As you lay the bricks, use the edge of the trowel to cut off excess mortar; this can be returned to the mortarboard.
- The most common finish for interiors has a smooth finish created by running a flat trowel over the top.
- Technically, you are supposed to spread the adhesive with a notched trowel.
- Using a notched trowel, spread the adhesive over one square area, not going over the reference lines of that area.
- Remove the bricks and use a pointed trowel to apply mortar to the concrete base, but do not go beyond the chalk lines.
- For shallow or small repairs, use a wide putty knife or trowel to apply a vinyl patching compound in multiple layers as directed by the maker.
- Pour the liquid latex into the sand and cement mixture and mix it completely with a trowel or other tool.
- Spread the adhesives on the wall using the flat side of the trowel.
2A small handheld tool with a curved scoop for lifting plants or earth. 小铲子（用来挖植物、土） Example sentencesExamples - In the car, I keep small pots and a trowel in a cardboard box and I did dig some native plants from wet ditches for bog plants.
- As you slide out the trowel, push any scattered soil back into the hole, then water the area to settle the soil.
- Within five minutes the computer was inside my briefcase, and I was walking out to the vegetable garden with a trowel in my hand and a grin on my face.
- Hand-weed with a trowel tip or soil knife, making sure to get the roots, which are especially irksome in dry soil.
- Small hand trowels, secateurs or a new pair of gardening gloves are also favourites.
- Use a trowel or dibber to make a hole twice their size and plant with the flat base at the bottom.
- Imagine being able to go outside in February and March and actually use a rototiller, or better yet, use a hand trowel.
- Dig into the top 2 to 3 inches of soil with a trowel.
- When visiting, bring a pot or two of tulips and a trowel.
- If this happens, loosen the soil with a trowel and replant the bulb, taking care not to damage the roots.
- Remove a core of soil from the lawn with a trowel or shovel and measure the depth of the thatch, which is the layer of dead grass above the soil line.
- Probably one of the most-used small tools is the trowel, which is ideal for digging small holes for planting and transplanting annuals, vegetables and other smaller plants.
- The gardener has done magnificent work - and it seems strange to use that term for the old scientist who is equally at home with his hydroponics and gene-fixing as with fertilisers and a trowel.
- Julia continues to dig deeper with a small shovel, a garden trowel.
- As a test, check soil moisture just before the system is due to come on by using a soil probe or digging down 3 to 6 inches (depending on size of plant) with a trowel.
- If the kids are old enough to garden, they can usually manage to use a hand trowel and fork.
- Many of his clients are recently retired baby boomers who have given up their fancy threads and skyscraper offices for gloves, a trowel, and a garden in the country.
- To help you determine planting depths and plant spacing, garden trowels often come with measurements right on the metal.
- Use a small trowel or soil knife to dig a hole slightly larger than the herb's pot and collect the soil in a bucket.
- Chris sighed and kept on digging his trowel into the earth.
verbtrowelled, trowels, troweling, troweled, trowelling ˈtraʊəlˈtraʊ(ə)l [with object]Apply or spread with or as if with a trowel. 用镘刀涂抹（或修平），像用镘刀似的涂抹（或修平）；用小铲斗挖 trowel in enough soil to form a dome Kerrie trowelled jam on to her toast Example sentencesExamples - Depending on the screeding method, parking lot pavement may be bullfloated or finished with a check rod, but it should not be troweled.
- You are now ready for the next finishing step - waiting for initial setting to occur and the bleed water to rise and evaporate - followed by troweling, edging, and jointing.
- I carefully troweled the last of the dirt around the spindly little plant.
- First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
- When troweling it on, push and move the material, creating varying textures.
- Final troweling operations are completed with riding trowels.
- This ‘lays the floor in,’ creating the best conditions for final troweling operations.
- This involves placing either a powdered or liquid release after color has been troweled, and rolling a large texture roller over the concrete surface.
- I was trowelling down through stiff clay which is quite hard on the wrist and suddenly the soil gave way to reveal a hard surface made up of tiny bits of red tile.
- The cement becomes sticky, and troweling often causes damage by pulling the cement loose from the concrete, causing bubbles.
- Slabs that will be heavily troweled should not contain entrained air because of the probability that delamination will result.
- Overlay cements are sticky and require experience in terms of troweling a finish.
- The purpose of this tool is to reduce local high spots caused by any imperfections in form setting and from the power floating and troweling operations.
- Finally, as the concrete further sets or stiffens, troweling operations begin, if required.
- These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks.
- Utterly maintenance free, it's a warm natural finish, sometimes with salmon- or ochre-colored striations, and can be troweled smooth or scraped vertically for a rough finish.
- For a start, its façade doesn't need to be heavily trowelled with filler to make it look vaguely presentable.
- At last a return for all that heavy labour, trowelling, surveying and drawing.
- She then troweled a thin layer of overlay cement into the unmasked areas, coloring it afterwards.
- A full bed of adhesive should be fully troweled to within 1 inch of each edge on clean and dry boards using a 1/4-inch deep, notched trowel.
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): from Old French truele, from medieval Latin truella, alteration of Latin trulla 'scoop', diminutive of trua 'skimmer'. Rhymesavowal, Baden-Powell, bowel, disembowel, dowel, Howell, Powell, rowel, towel, vowel Definition of trowel in US English: trowelnounˈtrou(ə)lˈtraʊ(ə)l 1A small handheld tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster. 镘刀，泥刀，抹子 Example sentencesExamples - Use a putty knife or a small notched trowel to apply adhesive to the back of the tile - your tile dealer can help you with the right adhesive for your situation - and press the tile into place.
- Wet the joint and then apply new mortar into the joint with a small masonry trowel or putty knife.
- In some cases an additional texture coat of finish material is applied over the initial finish coat and tooled with a trowel or other tool.
- Using a trowel, apply plaster over the hole covering the patch and filling the entire hole.
- It's a veritable hardware store of saw blades, pickaxe blades, trowels and awls.
- Once the tile is flexible, apply adhesive to the floor with a notched trowel and drop the tile into place.
- Crevice trowels have the narrowest blades, about 1 1/4 inches wide.
- Remove the bricks and use a pointed trowel to apply mortar to the concrete base, but do not go beyond the chalk lines.
- Pour the liquid latex into the sand and cement mixture and mix it completely with a trowel or other tool.
- Plasters and stuccos are spread by hand or trowel, or sprayed on with a mechanical sprayer or pump.
- Using your chalk line as a guide, spread the mortar with a notched trowel over a 2x5-foot section of the floor.
- Technically, you are supposed to spread the adhesive with a notched trowel.
- As you lay the bricks, use the edge of the trowel to cut off excess mortar; this can be returned to the mortarboard.
- Spread the adhesives on the wall using the flat side of the trowel.
- Using a notched trowel, spread the adhesive over one square area, not going over the reference lines of that area.
- The most common finish for interiors has a smooth finish created by running a flat trowel over the top.
- For shallow or small repairs, use a wide putty knife or trowel to apply a vinyl patching compound in multiple layers as directed by the maker.
- Using a notched trowel and working in small sections, spread 1/4 inch of grout or tile adhesive on the table surface.
- Use a small trowel to spread plaster onto a piece of muslin.
- The technique is very simple, use a rubber faced trowel to spread the grout and a cotton cloth to clean the excess grout from the tiles afterwards.
2A small handheld tool with a curved scoop for lifting plants or earth. 小铲子（用来挖植物、土） Example sentencesExamples - Hand-weed with a trowel tip or soil knife, making sure to get the roots, which are especially irksome in dry soil.
- Within five minutes the computer was inside my briefcase, and I was walking out to the vegetable garden with a trowel in my hand and a grin on my face.
- Use a trowel or dibber to make a hole twice their size and plant with the flat base at the bottom.
- As a test, check soil moisture just before the system is due to come on by using a soil probe or digging down 3 to 6 inches (depending on size of plant) with a trowel.
- As you slide out the trowel, push any scattered soil back into the hole, then water the area to settle the soil.
- The gardener has done magnificent work - and it seems strange to use that term for the old scientist who is equally at home with his hydroponics and gene-fixing as with fertilisers and a trowel.
- Chris sighed and kept on digging his trowel into the earth.
- Use a small trowel or soil knife to dig a hole slightly larger than the herb's pot and collect the soil in a bucket.
- When visiting, bring a pot or two of tulips and a trowel.
- Dig into the top 2 to 3 inches of soil with a trowel.
- Probably one of the most-used small tools is the trowel, which is ideal for digging small holes for planting and transplanting annuals, vegetables and other smaller plants.
- In the car, I keep small pots and a trowel in a cardboard box and I did dig some native plants from wet ditches for bog plants.
- Julia continues to dig deeper with a small shovel, a garden trowel.
- Remove a core of soil from the lawn with a trowel or shovel and measure the depth of the thatch, which is the layer of dead grass above the soil line.
- If this happens, loosen the soil with a trowel and replant the bulb, taking care not to damage the roots.
- To help you determine planting depths and plant spacing, garden trowels often come with measurements right on the metal.
- Imagine being able to go outside in February and March and actually use a rototiller, or better yet, use a hand trowel.
- Small hand trowels, secateurs or a new pair of gardening gloves are also favourites.
- Many of his clients are recently retired baby boomers who have given up their fancy threads and skyscraper offices for gloves, a trowel, and a garden in the country.
- If the kids are old enough to garden, they can usually manage to use a hand trowel and fork.
verbˈtrou(ə)lˈtraʊ(ə)l [with object]Apply or spread with or as if with a trowel. 用镘刀涂抹（或修平），像用镘刀似的涂抹（或修平）；用小铲斗挖 trowel in enough soil to form a dome Kerrie troweled jam onto her toast Example sentencesExamples - When troweling it on, push and move the material, creating varying textures.
- At last a return for all that heavy labour, trowelling, surveying and drawing.
- I was trowelling down through stiff clay which is quite hard on the wrist and suddenly the soil gave way to reveal a hard surface made up of tiny bits of red tile.
- Finally, as the concrete further sets or stiffens, troweling operations begin, if required.
- Utterly maintenance free, it's a warm natural finish, sometimes with salmon- or ochre-colored striations, and can be troweled smooth or scraped vertically for a rough finish.
- This involves placing either a powdered or liquid release after color has been troweled, and rolling a large texture roller over the concrete surface.
- For a start, its façade doesn't need to be heavily trowelled with filler to make it look vaguely presentable.
- A full bed of adhesive should be fully troweled to within 1 inch of each edge on clean and dry boards using a 1/4-inch deep, notched trowel.
- Overlay cements are sticky and require experience in terms of troweling a finish.
- The purpose of this tool is to reduce local high spots caused by any imperfections in form setting and from the power floating and troweling operations.
- First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
- This ‘lays the floor in,’ creating the best conditions for final troweling operations.
- Depending on the screeding method, parking lot pavement may be bullfloated or finished with a check rod, but it should not be troweled.
- Slabs that will be heavily troweled should not contain entrained air because of the probability that delamination will result.
- The cement becomes sticky, and troweling often causes damage by pulling the cement loose from the concrete, causing bubbles.
- She then troweled a thin layer of overlay cement into the unmasked areas, coloring it afterwards.
- You are now ready for the next finishing step - waiting for initial setting to occur and the bleed water to rise and evaporate - followed by troweling, edging, and jointing.
- I carefully troweled the last of the dirt around the spindly little plant.
- Final troweling operations are completed with riding trowels.
- These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks.
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): from Old French truele, from medieval Latin truella, alteration of Latin trulla ‘scoop’, diminutive of trua ‘skimmer’. |