different between trowel vs towel

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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Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Towler, Wolter

English

Etymology

From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahan? (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þw?le (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þw?an (“to wash”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: toul, tou??l
• IPA^(key): /ta?l/, /?ta?.?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l, -a??l

Noun

towel (plural towels)

1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

Hyponyms

• lavabo
• see also Derived terms below

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (taoru)

Translations

Verb

towel (third-person singular simple present towels, present participle toweling or towelling, simple past and past participle toweled or towelled)

1. (transitive) To hit with a towel.
2. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.

   He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.

3. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".

Derived terms

• towel off
• towel up
• untoweled, untowelled

Anagrams

• Towle, owlet

Middle English

Noun

towel

1. Alternative form of towayle