trowel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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