Trowel vs. Spade

Trowelnoun

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

Trowelnoun

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

Trowelnoun

A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Trowelverb

(transitive) To apply a substance with a trowel.

Trowelverb

(transitive) To pass over with a trowel.

Trowelverb

(figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.

Trowelnoun

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

Trowelnoun

A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

Trowelnoun

A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Trowelnoun

a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials

Trowelverb

use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work

Trowel

A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.

Spadenoun

A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.

Spadenoun

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

Spadenoun

A black person.

Spadenoun

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spadenoun

A hart or stag three years old.

Spadenoun

A castrated man or animal.

Spadeverb

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Spadenoun

A hart or stag three years old.

Spadenoun

A castrated man or beast.

Spadenoun

An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.

Spadenoun

One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

Spadenoun

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spadeverb

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Spadenoun

a playing card in the major suit of spades

Spadenoun

a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

Spadenoun

(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;

Spadeverb

dig (up) with a spade;

Spade

A spade is a tool primarily for digging, comprising a blade – typically stunted and less curved than that of a shovel – and a long handle. Early spades were made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades).