(US) present participle of trowel

(US) simple past tense and past participle of trowel

(Britain) present participle of trowel

(Britain) simple past tense and past participle of trowel

as much as a trowel will hold

plural of trowelful

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.

(transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel. / (transitive) To pass over with a trowel. / (colloquial, figuratively) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.

plural of trowel

A surname. / A village and civil parish in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England, on the border with Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4839).