gardening trowel; small transplanting shovel
A small hand tool used for digging, transplanting seedlings, or weeding in gardening.
I use a gardening trowel when transplanting seedlings.
シャベル is a shovel, typically larger than a trowel; 移植ごて is a small hand tool for delicate work.
Common spelling using ごて for the trowel part.
Kanji spelling for ごて; less common but still seen.
Compound of 移植 (transplanting) and ごて (trowel). The word ごて is a specialized term for a small hand trowel, often written in kana.