putty knife

1. 1.

   a spatula used to mix or apply putty

   Broaderspatula

Questions about putty knife

What does putty knife mean?

putty knife means "a spatula used to mix or apply putty".

Is putty knife a common word?

putty knife 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.