Crossword-Solution: TROWELED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Troweled | - | Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “TROWELED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shaped with a tool. | 1 answer |
| Spread around for sealing | 1 answer |
| Spread, as mortar | 1 answer |
| Used a garden tool | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OEITNMO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with TROWELED (5)
CHAPTER VIII.--METHODS AND COST OF FINISHING CONCRETE SURFACES 124 Imperfectly Made Forms--Imperfect Mixing and Placing--Efflorescence--Spaded and Troweled Finishes--Plaster and Stucco Finish--Mortar and Cement Facing--Special Facing Mixtures for Minimizing Form Marks--Washes--Finishing by Scrubbing and Washing--Finishing by Etching with Acid--Tooling Concrete Surfaces--Gravel or Pebble Surface Finish--Colored Facing.
Conversely, to make the surface coat adhere firmly to the base it must be placed before the base concrete has set; the base concrete must be thoroughly cleaned or kept clean from surface dirt; the surface coat must be tamped or troweled forcibly into the base concrete so as to press out all air and the film of water which collects on top of the concrete base.
After the initial set and first troweling, it is left until quite stiff, when it is troweled again and polished--a process called "hard finishing." The hard finish makes the surface less slippery.
This layer is put on rather wet, floated with a wooden float and troweled with a steel trowel while still wet.
The concrete was troweled to a fairly smooth surface, was mopped with a heavy coat of roofing asphaltum, or mastic, then covered with the heaviest grade roofing felt laid 3 ply, starting at the coping of the parade wall and made 4 ply in the gutter.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1949–2023).