pointing trowel

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   a trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cement

   Broadertrowel

Questions about pointing trowel

What does pointing trowel mean?

pointing trowel means "a trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cement".

Is pointing trowel a common word?

pointing trowel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.