It is a small hand tool with a curved blade used by gardeners for planting. It is also a hand tool, with a flat blade, for scooping or spreading plaster
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I went to the shed to get my trowel to use for gardening
"I will use the trowel for digging up weeds." "A trowel is a very small shovel."
Trowel doesn't really have an antonym. The definition of trowel is "A flat bladed tool used to work with mortar or to dig holes for plants." You could say cover, or bury, since the trowel is used to dig holes for planting? Hope that helps.
The word trowel originated in Latin as Trua meaning skimmer. From there it changed to trulla, truella, truele, to the now known trowel.Ê
The trowel, the float and other similar tools of masonry date so far back into history that their inventor and other details of their origin have been lost.