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Trowelled vs Troweled - What's the difference?

trowelled | troweled | Alternative forms |

Troweled is a alternative form of trowelled.



As verbs the difference between trowelled and troweled

is that trowelled is past tense of trowel while troweled is past tense of trowel.

trowelled

English

Alternative forms

* (US) troweled

Verb

(head)
  • (British) (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.

    troweled

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) trowelled

    Verb

    (head)
  • (US) (trowel)