trowel

FREQ #42487

n. 泥铲, 泥刀 vt. 用泥铲涂

发音

US /ˈtɹaʊ.əl/
UK /ˈtɹaʊ.əl/

词形变化

trowels 复数 trowels troweled troweling trowelled trowelling trowels 三单 troweling 现在分词 trowelling 现在分词 troweled 过去式 troweled 过去分词 trowelled 过去式 trowelled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

    镘

    抹子

  2. 2.

    A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.

    I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?

  3. 3.

    A tool used for smoothing a mold.

v.
  1. 1.

    To apply (a substance) with a trowel.

    及物

    He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.

  2. 2.

    To pass over with a trowel.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To apply something heavily or unsubtly.

    非正式 比喻

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

hand tool

下位词 2

slick pointing-trowel
动词

上位词 4

dig delve cut into turn over

相关短语

trowel machine 抹光机 trowel machines fish trowel lay on with a trowel power trowel lays on with a trowel laying on with a trowel laid on with a trowel

词源

From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.

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