This article is about the hand tool. For the archaeology journal, see Trowel (journal).
Not to be confused with Trowell.
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Masonry trowel
A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.
A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors.
material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel. A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered...
following is a list of the more common masonry trowels: Brick trowel: or mason's trowel is a point-nosed trowel for spreading mortar on bricks or concrete...
A power trowel (also known as a "power float" and "troweling machine") is a piece of light construction equipment used by construction companies and contractors...
trowel is an excavation implement used by archaeologists around the globe. Manufactured by the Marshalltown Company of Marshalltown, Iowa, the trowel...
the trowel bayonet, intended for individual soldiers as both a weapon and an entrenching tool. This was followed by the development of separate trowel and...
in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber. The dibber was first recorded in Roman times...
flattery," he said, "and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." With the phrase "we authors, Ma'am", he complimented her. Disraeli's ministry...
kunai) is a Japanese tool thought to be originally derived from the masonry trowel. The two widely recognized kinds are the short kunai (小苦無 shō-kunai) and...
brand of masonry tools and other types of edge tools. The WHS 4" pointing trowel is well known as a standard excavation implement in British archaeology...
From this bucket he hangs his trowel or trowels and places into it various tools. Normally a plasterer has one trowel for "laying on" (the process of...
TrowelBlazers is a project aimed at increasing the representation of women in the fields of archaeology, geology and palaeontology. The project is run...
image of the other. The name derives from the Classical Latin word for trowel or small shovel, which it was thought to resemble. In compound terms, the...
shelter such as a space blanket, signaling device, and toilet paper and trowel (for sanitary disposal of human waste; the toilet paper also doubles as...
Metropolitan Tabernacle. Masters edits the international magazine Sword & Trowel (started by Charles Spurgeon in 1865). Masters initiated the London Reformed...
of stonemasons – the square and compasses, the level and plumb rule, the trowel, the rough and smooth ashlars, among others. Moral lessons are attributed...
The blade is usually composed of tungsten carbide. A grout float is a trowel-like tool for smoothing the surface of a grout line, typically made of rubber...
Examples include the hatchet, axe, sickle, scythe, pitchfork, spade, shovel, trowel, hoe, fork, and rake. In some places, the machete is common. The earliest...
with Spurgeon's first "Down-grade" article, published in The Sword & the Trowel. In the ensuing "Downgrade Controversy," the Metropolitan Tabernacle disaffiliated...
blade caused unnecessarily severe wounds when used as a fixed bayonet. The trowel or spade bayonet was another multipurpose design, intended for use both...
and other countries, and hosts a weekly podcast called The Sword & The Trowel. Ascol believes that abortion is murder, and is in favor of equal protection...
require a drier one. To test the mix as you are making it, you can use a trowel, or pat the mortar with your hand to see how much moisture and "cream" come...
painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass...
likes flattery; and, when you come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel". Disraeli's biographer, Adam Kirsch, suggests that Disraeli's obsequious...
rectangular or diamond shaped. Handles are either straight or offset like a trowel. A painting knife differs from a palette knife which is used for mixing...
Duck was a feature of the mock news episodes, Dustin's Daily News. Simon Trowel (an obvious pun on Simon Cowell) is a miserable "twin" of Dustin, though...
katachthoníois and Lugdunum's commonplace but mysterious "dedicated under the trowel" (sub ascia dedicare). In the later Imperial era, the burial and commemorative...
consistency. A trowel is then used to apply the joint compound. The joint compound will begin to form stalactites as it dries. The trowel is then run over...
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