Usually means: Applying or smoothing with tool.
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  1. troweling: Merriam-Webster
  2. troweling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. troweling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. troweling: Vocabulary.com
  5. troweling: Wordnik
  6. troweling: Wiktionary
  7. troweling: Dictionary.com
  8. troweling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. troweling: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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  1. troweling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trowel)

noun:  A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
noun:  A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
noun:  A tool used for smoothing a mold.
verb:  (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
verb:  (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
verb:  (colloquial, figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
▸ Also see trowel


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