putty knife

English

a glazier's putty knife

generic putty knives

Noun

putty knife (plural putty knives)

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

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