trowel

lapioida, tasoittaa

tasoituslasta, lasta, laastilapio A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.

I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?

''He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.

The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.