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trowel

[trou-uhl] / ˈtraʊ əl /


NOUN
shovel
Synonyms
STRONG


VERB
shovel
Synonyms


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He said the peeling knife was his late grandmother's, the sickle had been purchased a decade ago and the trowel, which has a short blade and wooden handle, was a present.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

You’ll want to bring a trowel, and have a plan for toilet paper.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

The team of researchers used a trowel to shave 1 to 2 centimeters of snow from the surface of 130 polar bear prints left near Alaska’s North Slope.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023

He dropped the tulip bulb and buried the trowel in the dirt.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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