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Shovel   /ʃˈəvəl/   Listen
Shovel

noun
1.
A hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle.
2.
The quantity a shovel can hold.  Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful.
3.
A fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace.
4.
A machine for excavating.  Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel.
verb
(past & past part. shoveled or shovelled; pres. part. shoveling or shovelling)
1.
Dig with or as if with a shovel.  "He shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"



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"Shovel" Quotes from Famous Books



... contains a box in which is placed either wood ashes or dry powdered earth, with a small shovel by which a sufficient quantity of the dust to cover the deposit is thrown into the pail after each evacuation. It is remarkable how completely this shovelful of earth or ashes destroys all disagreeable smell. The privy should be provided with at least two opposite windows, both of which should ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris
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... his watch, and borrowed for her ten more of two of his friends. She engaged to meet him at midnight in a certain place a mile from the town where he lived, and that he there should dig up out of the ground a silver pot full of gold covered with a clean napkin. He went with his pickaxe and shovel at the appointed time to the supposed lucky spot, having his confidence strengthened by a dream he happened to have about money, which he considered a favourable omen of the wealth he was soon to receive. Of course he met no Gipsy; she had fled another ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith
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... once," said Fred, "that during a thunder-storm, a ball of fire came down on the chimney and rolled all around the room like a bubble of quicksilver and then struck a shovel that was standing in the corner, when it blew up with a bang. ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
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... in control of a great amount of ore lands, from some of which the ore could be removed by a steam shovel for a few cents a ton, but we still faced a most imperfect and inadequate method of transporting ...
— Random Reminiscences of Men and Events • John D. Rockefeller
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... Emperor Augustin Yturbide is placed on the right of the presidential chair, with his sword hanging on the wall; while on the left of the chief magistrate's seat there is a vacant space; perhaps destined for the name of another emperor. The multitude of priests with their large shovel-hats, and the entrance of the president in full uniform, announced by music and a flourish of trumpets, and attended by his staff, rendered it as anti-republican-looking an assembly as one could wish to see. The utmost ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca
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