different between granolithic vs trowel

English

Etymology

granolith +? -ic

Adjective

granolithic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a granolith

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?a?.?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l

Noun

trowel (plural trowels)

1. A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2. A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.

3. A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Derived terms

• pointing-trowel

Translations

Verb

trowel (third-person singular simple present trowels, present participle troweling or trowelling, simple past and past participle troweled or trowelled)

1. (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.

2. (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
3. (colloquial, figuratively) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
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Further reading

• trowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trowel in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Towler, Wolter