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Definition of Pointing trowel
1. Noun. A trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cement.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointing Trowel
Literary usage of Pointing trowel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"To find the line exactly, he runs his small pointing-trowel down through the
upper layer, and feels for the joint below. With the ends of the joints thus ..."
2. Carpentry and Building (1905)
"Concrete Sidewalks and Basement Floors. exactly he runs his small pointing trowel
down through the upper layer and feels for the joint below. ..."
3. Trade Foundations Based on Producing Industries (1919)
"It is applied with a pointing trowel, or metal tool which is moved forward or
downward with an even stroke, the point being al- 229. lowed to follow the ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"A pointing trowel is used for applying the mortar, which is thoroughly pressed
in, and given a smooth surface by a tool called a jointer; at (a), Fig., ..."
5. Practical Tree Repair: The Physical Repair of Trees--bracing and the by Elbert Peets (1913)
"Spread it back so as to bond with the stones, and pull it forward to the face,
pressing it against a pointing trowel held in the left hand. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American School, (Chicago, Ill.) (1907)
"... out to the depth of an inch and moistened, and the pointing mortar applied
with a small pointing trowel, and then rubbed in smooth with a jointing tool. ..."
7. Building Superintendence: A Working Guide to the Requirements of Modern by Edward Nichols (1907)
"... to the depth of an indi and moistened, and the pointing mortar applied with
a small pointing trowel, anil then rubbed in smooth with a jointing tool. ..."
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