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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of trowel.

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Examples

  • Ming looked half asleep and someone had obviously trowelled the makeup on.

    Huhne Scores in First TV Debate 2006

  • However there is a small modern movement happening as well, with the Micro Compact Home, and we certainly have trowelled on the pixels for the Sustain Minihome.

    Lloyd Alter: Let's Get Small 2008

  • The building itself is an ornate adventure in nineteenth century architecture; three storeys of rambling brick trowelled into six hectares of stunning restored gardens.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • The building itself is an ornate adventure in nineteenth century architecture; three storeys of rambling brick trowelled into six hectares of stunning restored gardens.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • I can think of few things worse than braving the Galéries Lafayette or Printemps department stores only to have to fight my way through hordes of middle aged women in tasteless fake? fur coats and trowelled-on make-up to ferret out ‘une bonne affaire’.

    A new toy (from hell) 2005

  • I can think of few things worse than braving the Galéries Lafayette or Printemps department stores only to have to fight my way through hordes of middle aged women in tasteless fake? fur coats and trowelled-on make-up to ferret out ‘une bonne affaire’.

    pushchair rage 2005

  • Using the corresponding scoop, a measured lump of mixed mortar is placed on the screeding table, and then this is trowelled out to an even thickness within the tile frame, while generating the vibration by rocking the foot pedals back and forth.

    Chapter 10 1997

  • The mortar is trowelled into the screeding frame, and the power is switched on for approximately 45 seconds.

    Chapter 4 1992

  • · The wet mix is trowelled onto a polythene interface sheet on the screeding machine and, under vibration, smoothed with a trowel to the same level as the surrounding steel frame.

    Chapter 3 1991

  • Using the corresponding scoop, a measured lump of mixed mortar is placed on the screeding table, and then this is trowelled out to an even thickness within the tile frame, while generating the vibration by rocking the foot pedals back and forth.

    Chapter 7 1991

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