pointing trowel
- noun
- Specialized
:
paleta de apuntar
- She skillfully applied the cement with her pointing trowel to achieve a smooth finish.
Examples
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I need a pointing trowel for my masonry project.
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The mason used a pointing trowel to carefully fill the gaps between the bricks.
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A pointing trowel is essential for detailed work when repairing old mortar joints.
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The pointing trowel is essential for finishing brick walls.
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To repair the cracks in the wall, he carefully applied the mortar with a pointing trowel.
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The mason used a pointing trowel to fill the gaps between the bricks with cement.
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When fixing the stone patio, she relied on a pointing trowel to smooth the joints.
Synonyms
A hand tool with a flat pointed blade for spreading and shaping mortar or cement
A hand tool with a flat pointed blade for picking up and spreading mortar between bricks
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Morphology
Because 'point' is given with the specialized meaning 'to fill or repair joints with mortar' and 'trowel' is a hand tool, 'pointing trowel' is transparently interpretable as a trowel used for pointing (filling joints). This tool-for-purpose compound follows a regular English compositional pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun pointing trowel is named for the job it does: pointing means 'to fill and shape the mortar between bricks' and a trowel is a small hand tool. That's why the name refers to a small, pointed tool used to fill narrow 'gaps' between bricks.