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Definition of Trowels
1. trowel [v] - See also: trowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trowels
Literary usage of Trowels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of by Gates Phillips Thruston (1897)
"The two largest of these trowels, measuring about six inches in diameter, ...
The three smaller trowels of the set, four or five inches in diameter, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the by John Holland (1831)
"ROLLED STEEL trowels. DESIRABLE QUALITIES IN EDGE TOOLS. ... Hatchets, adzes,
chopping and drawing knives, plane irons, trowels, augers, and all sorts of ..."
3. Laboratory Manual for the Use of Students in Testing Materials of Construction by Leslie Abram Waterbury (1912)
"trowels. For use in cement laboratories pointing trowels, Fig. 8, or masons'
trowels, are most useful. The most convenient sizes are five-inch, six-inch, ..."
4. Laboratory Manual for the Use of Students in Testing Materials of Construction by Leslie Abram Waterbury (1912)
"trowels. For use in cement laboratories pointing trowels, Fig. 8, or masons'
trowels, are most useful. The most convenient sizes are five-inch, six-inch, ..."
5. Cement Laboratory Manual: A Manual of Instructions for the Use of Students by Leslie Abram Waterbury (1908)
"trowels. For use in cement laboratories pointing trowels, or masons' trowels, Fig.
... The most convenient sizes are 5-inch, 6-inch, and id-inch trowels. ..."
6. Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Many patterns of hand-weeders are in the mar- 105 A small ket, an(^ °tner forms
will suggest themselves to hand-weeder. the Operator. trowels and their ..."
7. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"3822 a London brick trowel ; Fig. 3823 a pointer's cutting trowel ; Fig.
3824 plasterers' trowels ; Figs. 3825, 3826, plasterers' moulding tools. ..."
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