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Trowel

A steel tool with a flat surface that causes a concrete surface to become very smooth.

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troweling
Building materials; Concrete

Smoothing and compacting the unformed surface of fresh concrete by strokes of a trowel.

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A thin, flat steel tool, either pointed or rectangular, provided with a handle and held in the hand, used to manipulate concrete, mastic, or mortar to create a dense, smooth ...

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A tool that are used to remove the topsoil of a site; a trowel is also used to create flat profiles.

trowel
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Building materials; Bricks

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