A thin, flat steel tool, either pointed or rectangular, provided with a handle and held in the hand, used to manipulate concrete, mastic, or mortar create a dense, smooth finish on a concrete surface. It is also a machine whose rotating blades are used to finish concrete slabs. See screed, float, bull float, and darby.
A trowel is a hand tool used to spread mastic on a subfloor. Depending on the thickness of the flooring, and the manufacturer's recommendations, the trowel will be specified to have notches of a certain shape and size that will determine the amount of mastic that is applied. The coverage is called the “spread rate'.
A flat bladed hand toll for leveling, spreading, or shaping substances such as cement or mortar.
a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work
a digging tool with a flat, diamond shaped blade used to scrape away dirt and pick out rocks from around artifacts
a flat piece of iron, with which the walls are cemented, fixing the stones together with chalk or clay
a good tool for moving dirt and rocks when prospecting or panning for gold
a scaled-down shovel, indispensable for small gardening tasks like planting seedlings, digging out a stubborn tap-rooted weed or filling an urn with potting soil
a scoop-shaped small tool used for digging up dirt or setting in small plants ( figure B )
a shovel-like piece of equipment which is used to dig up dirt and set small plants
a small, hand-held tool with a flat pointed blade
a specialist tool for digging up small rocks to collect attached animals like the Sagartiidae family of sea anemones
a tool used to spread cement or mortar
A flat, broad-blade steel hand tool used to apply, spread, shape, and smooth-finish coat plaster.
This is a tool that an archaeologist uses to dig in the ground with. It's very useful because it allows you to dig in a sideways, scraping fashion. It's important that you clear off one level in a unit before digging down to the next level. Trowels are the single most useful tool to an archaeologist.
a hand-held tool with a flat, pie-shaped blade used in archaeology and geology to carefully remove sediment layers
A steel tool with a flat surface that causes a concrete surface to become very smooth.
A small shovel, often brightly-coloured, used for digging toilet holes
Tool used for mixing and applying compounds such as mortar. Home Improvement Encyclopedia
A flat, broad-bladed steel hand tool used to compact the paste layer at the surface and provide a smooth, flat finish. Also useful for applying topping or repair materials. Available in different shapes (with rounded or square edges) and lengths (ranging from 8 to 24 inches). Smaller trowels are useful for borders, work in restricted areas, or to work in flashing accents of dry-shake color hardener. (Also see margin trowel, fresno).
A tool used by archaeologists to dig in the ground. A trowel is very useful because it allows them to dig in a sideways, scraping fashion. It's important to clear off one level in a unit before digging down to the next level. An archaeologist's trowel is straight-edged, not curved like a shovel or garden trowel.
Tool for sleeking, patching, and finishing a mold.
A hand tool with a flat blade used for smoothing concrete, mortar, stucco, or plaster. Alternately, a small shovel used for fine gardening work is sometimes called a trowel.
A steel tool with a flat surface used to smooth wet concrete. Also a small hand shovel used in gardening.
A trowel is one of several similar hand tools.