trowel
noun
any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
trowelled
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past participleof trowel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof trowel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trowelnounany of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
Example Sentences
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Paul senses the irony is being rather trowelled on, but it's now too late.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013
The ghost of the abstract expressionist Clyfford Still and his sooty trowelled surfaces is intimated in a painting of a slabby night-time wall, illuminated by a single yellow-lit window.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010
An author may sometimes think he is fulsomely praised and may even feel a sort of disgust for the slab adulation trowelled upon him, but his admirer need not fear being accused of insincerity.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
A layer of thin clay mortar was then spread over the surface and well trowelled until it began to show on the under side.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
“Thank ’ee, mother,” said Jim, with a pleasant nod, as he cut an enormous slice from the loaf, trowelled upon it a mass of the yellow butter, and pushed in his cup for more tea.
From The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
