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say it: TROW-wel
trowel is a noun and verb meaning "a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trowel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.