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Synonyms for trowel
The synonym for trowel recorded in this bank is scoop, in the sense "a small hand tool with a flat blade, used for digging, planting, or spreading". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for trowel
- scoopnoun, in the sense "a small hand tool with a flat blade, used for digging, planting, or spreading"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day trowel is audited in a second meaning.
a small hand tool with a flat blade, used for digging, planting, or spreading
She used a trowel to scoop soil into the flowerpot.
The true synonym
scoop
Same sentence, swapped: She used a scoop to scoop soil into the flowerpot.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for trowel in the sentence quoted.
- rake
- hoe
- pruner
Where trowel turns up in the game
trowel is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play trowel
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trowel reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from objects at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. trowel carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.