trowel
noun
any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
troweling
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present participleof trowel.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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You’re basically painting or troweling on a thin layer of limestone.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Immediately, this dynamo of energy fell in love with the slow, methodical process of mixing mortar, troweling, and stacking bricks.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2019
Working in a hot kitchen, troweling french fries into paper bags, isn’t easy, but a lot of people would consider it easier than helping an adult out of bed and to the toilet.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2018
Laborers carried the mortar down the ladders to the masons who would lay the stones on top of each other, troweling a layer of mortar between each stone and each layer of stones.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
