noun. A tool with a handle and a broad scoop or blade for digging and moving material, such as dirt or snow.

noun. A large mechanical device or vehicle for heavy digging or excavation.

noun. The amount that a shovel can hold; a shovelful.

intransitive verb. To move or remove with a shovel.

intransitive verb. To make with a shovel.

intransitive verb. To convey or throw in a rough or hasty way, as if with a shovel.

intransitive verb. To clear or excavate with or as if with a shovel.

intransitive verb. To dig or work with a shovel.

noun. Same as shoveler.

To take up and move with a shovel.

To move or throw in large quantities, hastily and clumsily, as if with a shovel: as, to shovel food into the mouth with a knife.

To cover up with earth by means of a spade or shovel.

To use a shovel: as, to shovel for one's living.

An obsolete form of shuffle.

noun. An instrument consisting of a broad scoop or concave blade with a handle, used for taking up and removing loose substances, as coal, sand, earth, gravel, corn, coin, etc.

noun. A shovel-hat.

noun. In zoology, a formation suggesting a shovel. See cuts under paddle-fish and shoveler.

noun. See the quotation.

noun. The blade of any plow or cultivator exclusive of those having shares and mold-boards. Not only shovel-like blades but narrow vertical forms and horizontal scrapers are sometimes included. See scalp, n., 7; scooter, 3; scrape, 7; and entries below.

noun. An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.

noun. a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, -- worn by some clergy of the English Church.

noun. a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- used in burrowing.

noun. a machine with a scoop or scoops, operated by a steam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings.

transitive verb. To take up and throw with a shovel.

transitive verb. To gather up as with a shovel.

noun. A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

noun. A spade.

verb. To move materials with a shovel.

verb. To move with a shoveling motion.

noun. a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

noun. a machine for excavating

verb. dig with or as if with a shovel

noun. the quantity a shovel can hold

noun. a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

"But a spokesperson for the department tells us they don't officially use the term shovel-ready."

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