trowel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  2. A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
    — I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?
  3. A tool used for smoothing a mold.
动词 v.
  1. To apply (a substance) with a trowel. transitive
    — He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
  2. To pass over with a trowel. transitive
    — Most finish coats are troweled smooth, but sometimes you will have to add cosmetic touches to make the patch match the surrounding plaster, texturing the surface randomly or uniformly with any of a variety of tools, ranging from sponges to special trowels.
  3. To apply something heavily or unsubtly. colloquial,figuratively
    — The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.

词形变化

trowels plural trowels present,singular,third-person troweling US,participle,present trowelling UK,participle,present troweled US,participle,past troweled US,past trowelled UK,participle,past trowelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
fish trowel lay on with a trowel pointing-trowel power trowel trowelful troweller trowel machine trowelman untroweled untrowelled

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.
词源 2
From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.
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