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Trowel vs Trowed - What's the difference?

trowel | trowed |

As verbs the difference between trowel and trowed

is that trowel is to apply a substance with a trowel while trowed is past tense of trow.

As a noun trowel

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

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.

    trowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (trow)

    • trow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To trust or believe.
  • To have confidence in, or to give credence to.

    • Noun

  • Trust or faith.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods
  • (Scottish, dated) troll

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