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shovel

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noun

shov·​el ˈshə-vəl How to pronounce shovel (audio)
1
a
: a hand implement consisting of a broad scoop or a more or less hollowed out blade with a handle used to lift and throw material
b
: something that resembles a shovel
c
: an excavating machine
especially : a hydraulic diesel-engine driven power shovel
2

shovel

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verb

shoveled or shovelled; shoveling or shovelling ˈshə-və-liŋ How to pronounce shovel (audio)
ˈshəv-liŋ

transitive verb

1
: to take up and throw with a shovel
2
: to dig or clean out with a shovel
3
: to throw or convey roughly or in a mass as if with a shovel
shoveled his food into his mouth

intransitive verb

: to use a shovel

Synonyms

Verb

Example Sentences

Verb He is outside shoveling snow. I have to shovel the driveway. I had to shovel for an hour to clear the driveway. The snow was so deep we had to shovel a path to our front door. Stop shoveling food into your mouth.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The co-investment is a catalyst that greases the skids for those projects to get from shovel-ready to underway and done. John Sabo, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 Lift from your legs and pivot rather than twisting when depositing the snow from the shovel. Julie Washington, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022 Kurdish fighters heaved them one by one into the shovel of a yellow front-end loader, which moved them into a 40-foot gravel truck to be taken away for burial. New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022 Kurdish fighters heaved them one by one into the shovel of a yellow front-end loader, which moved them into a 40-foot gravel truck to be taken away for burial. Sangar Khaleel, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2022 The first shovel broke ground in November 2020 — more than a year after the board approved the Netsync agreement and months after the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022 Brett Favre was a master of the shovel during Reich’s era. Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2021 Dig out about half of the hot rocks from the pit with the shovel, even out the spacing of the rest across the bottom, and lower the wire tray down, keeping the handles near the rim of the hole for easy retrieval. Murat Oztaskin, Outside Online, 10 July 2021 In Garrett on Saturday, couches, tables and pillows soaked by flooding were stacked in yards along the foothills of the mountainous region as people worked to clear out debris and shovel mud from driveways and roads under now-blue skies. Julianne Mcshane, NBC News, 31 July 2022
Verb
Combatants were slain, and squires, unsung, Came through with their spades to shovel horse dung. Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022 Even so, the journey to the end of Chevalier feels like a race to wrap up the narrative threads introduced and shovel in more of the composer’s history. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022 More firefighters jumped down to shovel muddy soot and pull out smaller debris. Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022 Also, be kind to the pedestrians, postal carriers and delivery people and shovel your sidewalks and steps. Carol Kovach, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2022 Use a potato fork or shovel to loosen soil all around the clump, working at least 1 foot away from the main stem. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2022 An effective way to do this is to stick a finger, soil probe, garden trowel, or shovel into the soil after 30 or so minutes of watering. James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2022 Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 19 Jan. 2022 China’s voracious appetite for the metal to shovel into steel furnaces sent prices above $50,000 a metric ton in 2007, a record that stood until last week. Joe Wallace, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old English scofl; akin to Old High German scūfla shovel, Old English scūfan to thrust away

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of shovel was before the 12th century

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