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shovel
  1. A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
  2. (US) A spade.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “A hole can be dug in one hour with a small shovel and in half an hour with a large shovel.”
shoveler
  1. One who, or that which, shovels.
  2. Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Arctic terns, Mew gulls, scaup, shoveler, buffleheads, baldpates, yellow legs and various passerines were observed.”
      “Jurgis is hired at Brown's Meat packing plant as a shoveler.”
      “It takes its name from its peculiar bill, and may be termed the shoveler of Australia.”
shovelbill
  1. A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.
shovelard
  1. (Britain, dialect) A kind of dabbling duck; the shoveler.
shovelful
  1. The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are plenty of bacteria, fungi, and other critters in a shovelful of soil or finished compost to get things cooking.”
      “You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting.”
      “Every shovelful of dirt taken from the floodway increases its capacity to carry excess water to the north.”
shoveling
shoveller
  1. Alternative spelling of shoveler
shovelling
  1. The act by which something is shovelled.
shovelbills
  1. plural of shovelbill
shovellings
  1. plural of shovelling
shovelfuls
  1. plural of shovelful
  2. Examples:
    1. “I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture.”
      “A few shovelfuls of earth, a sprinkling of holy water by a priest, and all was said.”
      “They spread the lime together, sprinkling it thickly along the firestep, throwing shovelfuls at a bad patch of wall.”
shovelings
shovellers
  1. plural of shoveller
shovelsful
  1. plural of shovelful
shovelards
  1. plural of shovelard
shovelers
shovels
  1. plural of shovel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries.”
      “This included high heel shoes, underwear, shovels, wheelbarrow, sledge hammers, ball and chains, etc.”
      “We get up at 6.30 am and head out to the beach with our wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, machete and rubbish bags.”
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