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Carpenter vs Trowel - What's the difference?

carpenter | trowel |

As a proper noun carpenter

is derived from the trade name carpenter.

As a noun trowel is

a mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

As a verb trowel is

to apply a substance with a trowel.

carpenter

English

(wikipedia carpenter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  • (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  • A two-wheeled carriage

    • Synonyms

    * joiner * chippy

    Related terms

    * carpentry (pos n) * The Carpenter

    External links

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    trowel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel ?
  • A tool used for smoothing a mold.

    • Derived terms

    * pointing-trowel

    Verb

  • To apply a substance with a trowel.
    • ''He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
  • * 2014 , Steve Rose, " Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
    • 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.