🇬🇧 Trowel meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A trowel is a small tool you hold in one hand. It has a flat metal blade and a handle. Builders use a trowel to scoop, spread, and smooth wet, squishy building stuff like cement or plaster so walls and bricks stay together and look neat.

I waved the trowel and declared, “I shall build a castle!” then remembered I can’t even build a sandwich.

I told my teacher I helped build a wall, but really I just followed the builder around holding the trowel like a royal assistant.

My cousin called the trowel a ‘cement spatula’ and honestly, I think that should be its new official name.

The trowel spread cement in a straight line, and my brain said, “Teach me your focus, oh wise tool.”

Archaeologists also use a special trowel to carefully dig up ancient treasures—so somewhere, a trowel has probably uncovered a dinosaur’s old backyard.

On the porch, an old woman held a trowel and a bowl of wet cement. She dipped the trowel, lifted the cement, pressed it into the crack, and used the trowel to smooth the surface. A child watched, breath held. The trowel scraped the edge clean. She wiped the trowel, smiled; the porch looked whole.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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