"putty knife" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: putty knives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|putty knives}} putty knife (plural putty knives)
  1. A hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions. Translations (a hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions): couteau à mastic [masculine] (French), rapa herepuru (Maori)
    Sense id: en-putty_knife-en-noun-BGKBVAcy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 70 30 Disambiguation of 'a hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions': 90 10
  2. A similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks. Categories (topical): Tools Synonyms (tool with wide, flat blade): spatula Translations (a similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks): couteau à enduire [masculine] (French), Spachtelmesser [neuter] (German), Spachtel [feminine, masculine] (German), Kittspachtel [masculine] (German), Kittmesser [neuter] (German), spakli (Hungarian), spakni (Hungarian), spachtli (Hungarian), simítókés (Hungarian), kaparókanál (Hungarian), rapa herepuru (Maori), مابلاق (mablak) (Ottoman Turkish), spackel [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-putty_knife-en-noun-jDid~iNe Disambiguation of Tools: 42 58 Disambiguation of 'tool with wide, flat blade': 33 67 Disambiguation of 'a similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks': 14 86

Inflected forms

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