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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Verbit
- (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
- (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
- (colloquial, figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
Esimerkit
- I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?
- He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
- The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.
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