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trowels

  • plural of trowel.
  • present tense form of trowel (3rd person singular).

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Trowels, pool cues, metal spikes and bicycle tires are among the not-so-raw ingredients of the pieces in “Transformers,” at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2018

Trowels, if they do useful work, have to get dirty doing it, and Petro didn't stop because of that.

From Bird Stories by Sim, Robert J.

Trowels, paddles, stamps, polishing-stones, and other implements were used in finishing.

From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by Holmes, William Henry

Add to this the pensive Drudgery in Building, and constant grasping Aerial Trowels, distracts and shatters the Mind, and the fond Builder of Babells is often cursed with an incoherent Diversity and Confusion of Thoughts.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Trowels of the proscribed Templars built tombs for its persecutors, 821-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert