putty knife

English

a glazier's putty knife

generic putty knives

Noun

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.
2. A similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks.

Synonyms

• (tool with wide, flat blade): spatula

Translations

a hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions

• French: couteau à mastic m
• Maori: rapa herepuru

a similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks

• French: couteau à enduire (fr) m
• German: Spachtelmesser n, Spachtel (de) m or f, Kittspachtel m, Kittmesser n
• Hungarian: spakli (hu), spakni, spachtli, simítókés (hu), kaparókanál (hu)
• Maori: rapa herepuru
• Ottoman Turkish: مابلاق (mablak)
• Swedish: spackel (sv) c

References

• “putty knife”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “putty knife”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• putty knife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Putty knives on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons