Small spades

Usage examples of trowels.

He didn't want to waste it, but was worried that the squad leader might be reprimanded if the trowels were handed in late.

One was open and contained a motley collection of rusted gar­den tools: trowels, a spade, a short hoe.

There was a six-foot workbench, its surface littered with clay pots, trowels, spilled pot­ting soil, and discarded seed packs.

But they passed areas of land at the intersection of boulevards where people tended rows of vegetables with hoes and trowels, working at their tasks with an intensity of purpose more appropriate to peasants for whom the success of their farming meant the difference between survival and starvation.

One made couches such as Dannie had laid herself upon last night, and another assembled gardening equipment from parts manufactured elsewhere: harrows, hoes, shovels, trowels, rakes.

Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels.

She glided along with gentle fin flutters, pitying the expedition's land archaeologists as they crawled on sore knees wielding trowels and whisk brooms, eyes stinging with sweat-caked dust.