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Troweled vs Toweled - What's the difference?

troweled | toweled |

As verbs the difference between troweled and toweled

is that troweled is (us) (trowel) while toweled is (towel).

troweled

English

Alternative forms

* (UK) trowelled

Verb

(head)
  • (US) (trowel)

    • 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.

    toweled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (towel)

    • towel

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia towel) (en noun)
  • A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • To hit with a towel.
  • To dry by using a towel.
    • He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To beat with a stick.

    • Derived terms

    * (l), (l) (Webster 1913)

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