shovel
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- n a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- n the quantity a shovel can hold
- n a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- n a machine for excavating
- v dig with or as if with a shovel
shovel sand
he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long
- In this four-alarm economic emergency (nearly 2 million jobs have vanished in four months), it's easy to forget that shovel-ready doesn't necessarily mean shovel-worthy.
- On the other side, big clamshell shovels clawed an open pit for exploration.
- Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson goes about his ring work in the methodical, workmanlike way of a power shovel moving a specified amount of earth.