shovel
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈʃʌvəl/
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pala
- In the morning, our team trudged back up the hill with shovels, buckets, bags, and cameras.
- snow shovel
- picks and shovels
- dig with a shovel
Now to get your shovel and start digging, plant that tree.
- Now to get your shovel and start digging, plant that tree.
- And there you go, OK, get me a shovel and a shop vac.
- Outside that box, man, God gives you a shovel and says, man, start digging.
- You were not ready, but they issued the shovel and the rifle, and you dug.
- It was a metal snow shovel, and it collapsed and folded up.
- There could be a cement place or a place with a shovel at his hand, maybe.
- God, I see a driveway, I see a shovel.
Examples
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The man has a shovel and he starts to dig.
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Now to get your shovel and start digging, plant that tree.
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We often grab a shovel to dig ourselves out of the hole.
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Then would somebody get a shovel and some sand and move that out of here?
Fiction book (1990) -
Can l borrow that shovel?
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Chick picks up his shovel and water bottle and starts for his car.
Fiction book (1990) -
And finally, just as she drifted off, she heard the noise, the shovel cutting into the field.
Fiction book (1990) -
Jackson went and got a shovel and held it out to Bantry.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then, in 1989, archaeologist Jim Price took a shovel to a temple mound near New Madrid.
Academic text (2006) -
The workers used their shovels to clear the snow from the driveway.
Synonyms
25
1.0
A tool with a flat blade and long handle for digging
16
2.1
A curved bowl used to lift things like ice cream and soil
10
4.8
A small hand tool with a flat metal blade used to scoop and spread soil or plaster
2
1.0
A tool used to work in a garden, like a spade or rake
1
2.4
A hand-held metal tool that you use to move coal into or out of a fire
A small tool like a mini spade you hold in one hand to dig or move dirt
A large deep bucket on a machine used to lift and move dirt
A digging tool with a long handle for reaching deep, narrow holes
A spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches
A hand tool with a flat rectangular blade for digging and edging soil
Compounds
- Archaic
2
5.7
A large machine with a bucket that digs and moves earth in construction and mining
- Archaic
A game where players slide coins or discs across a long smooth board to reach a target for points
- Archaic
A stiff hat with a wide brim and a front that sticks out often worn by church priests
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Etymology
The word shovel comes from an old English word scofl that meant 'scoop' or 'digging tool'. So a shovel is literally a 'scoop' used to move soil, ash, or snow.