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  • noun Plural form of trowelful.

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Examples

  • After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire.

    The Secret Garden 1911

  • After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire.

    The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911

  • About the first of July and the first of September have a couple of trowelfuls of manure carefully dug in about the roots of each plant.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

  • I shall not pronounce upon Mr. Masefield's "Captain Margaret," because, though it has been splashed all over by trowelfuls of slabby and mortarish praise, it has real merits.

    Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

  • After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire.

    The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • He then majestically descended to the strains of the band, which began to play, deposited several trowelfuls of mortar on the stone, and with equal majesty reascended.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • Lord Minto, whose friendship for Nelson was of proof, wrote eighteen months after this to his wife: “She goes on cramming Nelson with trowelfuls of flattery, which he goes on taking as quietly as a child does pap.” [

    The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

  • Nelson with trowelfuls of flattery, which he goes on taking as quietly as a child does pap. "[

    The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

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