"This is ..." "Working glove and trowel. One of a gardening club's basic tools."
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Trowel
//ˈtɹaʊ.əl//
Synonyms for "trowel" (5 found)
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5 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
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2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
108 translations across 41 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- مَالَج noun (mason's tool)
- مَالَج noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- مَالَج noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- مِجْرَفَة noun (mason's tool)
Assamese
1 entries- খন্তি noun (mason's tool)
Breton
1 entries- loa-vañson noun (mason's tool)
Bulgarian
3 entries- градинарска лопатка noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- мистрия noun (mason's tool)
- мажа verb (to apply with a trowel)
Catalan
2 entries- desplantador noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- paleta noun (mason's tool)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 抹子 noun (mason's tool)
- 鏝 /镘 noun (mason's tool)
Czech
2 entries- lopatka noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- zednická lžíce noun (mason's tool)
Dutch
4 entries- troffel noun (mason's tool)
- truweel noun (mason's tool)
- tuinschep noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- troffelen verb (to apply with a trowel)
Esperanto
1 entries- trulo noun (mason's tool)
Finnish
4 entries- istutuslapio noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- laastilapio noun (mason's tool)
- tasoituslasta noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- lapata verb (to apply with a trowel)
French
4 entries- déplantoir noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- gâche noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- transplantoir noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- truelle noun (mason's tool)
Galician
4 entries- badil noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- espadela noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- pela noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- rapa noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
German
4 entries- Glättkelle noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- Handschaufel noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- Hohlspatel noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- Kelle noun (mason's tool)
Greek
1 entries- μυστρί noun (mason's tool)
Hungarian
4 entries- fangli noun (mason's tool)
- kőműveskanál noun (mason's tool)
- spakli noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- téhely noun (mason's tool)
Indonesian
3 entries- sekop noun (mason's tool)
- sekop noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- sekop noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
Irish
2 entries- lián noun (mason's tool)
- lián noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Italian
3 entries- cazzuola noun (mason's tool)
- pala noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- paletta noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Japanese
2 entries- こて noun (mason's tool)
- トロエル noun (mason's tool)
Kazakh
2 entries- қалақша noun (mason's tool)
- әндеме noun (mason's tool)
Korean
1 entries- 모종삽 noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- łopatka noun (mason's tool)
Macedonian
1 entries- мистрија noun (mason's tool)
Norman
1 entries- trouelle noun (mason's tool)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- ماله noun (mason's tool)
- مالهلامق verb (to apply with a trowel)
Persian
2 entries- بیلچه noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- ماله noun (mason's tool)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kjal noun (mason's tool)
Polish
2 entries- kielnia noun (mason's tool)
- łopatka noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Portuguese
3 entries- colher de pedreiro noun (mason's tool)
- espátula noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- trolha noun (mason's tool)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਕਰੰਡੀ noun (mason's tool)
- ਕਾਂਡੀ noun (mason's tool)
Romanian
1 entries- mistrie noun (mason's tool)
Russian
3 entries- ке́льма noun (mason's tool)
- мастеро́к noun (mason's tool)
- садо́вый сово́к noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- gleterica noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- mistrija noun (mason's tool)
- zidarska žlica noun (mason's tool)
Spanish
4 entries- cuchara de albañil noun (mason's tool)
- desplantador noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- pala noun (tool used for smoothing mold)
- pala de jardinería noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Swedish
3 entries- murslev noun (mason's tool)
- planteringsspade noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- trädgårdsspade noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Tagalog
1 entries- dulos noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Turkish
3 entries- bahçe malası noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
- mala noun (mason's tool)
- malalamak verb (to apply with a trowel)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئەندۇۋا noun (mason's tool)
Uzbek
1 entries- molga noun (mason's tool)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bay noun (mason's tool)
Welsh
2 entries- trywel noun (mason's tool)
- trywel noun (scoop-like gardening tool)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The smoothing trowel is a tool for plasterers, tilers and masons.
Source: tatoeba (3622410)
Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
Source: tatoeba (3971622)
I had no shovel, so I made do with a bricklayer's trowel.
Source: tatoeba (10068779)
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