Shovel

Noun

 * 1) A hand tool with a handle for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another. Not to be confused with a spade which is for digging.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A spade.

Derived terms

 * steamshovel
 * snow shovel
 * coal shovel


 * shoveler
 * shovelful

Verb

 * 1) To move materials with a shovel.
 * The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
 * After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
 * I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.

Verbs for Shovel
apply—; brandish—; discard—; employ—; muster—s; scoop in—; till with—; —burrows; —clatters; —cuts; —delves; —dis¬closes; —excavates; —exposes; —gouges; —grates against; —lays bare; —unearths.

Thesaurus
backhoe, bail, bar spade, bore, bucket, burrow, coal shovel, cup, decant, delve, dig, dig out, dike, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dredge, drill, drive, excavate, fork, furrow, garden spade, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, gumming spade, ladle, lower, loy, mine, peat spade, posthole spade, pour, power shovel, quarry, salt shovel, sap, scoop, scoop out, scoop shovel, scrabble, scrape, scratch, scuff, shamble, sink, spade, split shovel, spoon, spud, steam shovel, stump spud, trench, trenching spade, trough, tunnel

Etymology
From scofl:.

Noun

 * Abkhaz: ажыга
 * Arabic: مجرفة
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鏟子, 铲子, 鐵鍬, 铁锹
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skovl
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: kühvel
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: シャベル
 * Korean: 삽
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: skuffe
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: совковая лопата,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: лопата
 * Roman: lopata
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skyffel, skovel, spade
 * Telugu: పార (paara)

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: рине
 * Spanish: traspalar
 * Swedish: skyffla, skotta (snow)

Related terms

 * shove

Anagrams

 * hovels