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

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

n. The amount that a shovel can hold; a shovelful: One shovel of dirt.

v. To move or remove with a shovel.

v. To make with a shovel: shoveled a path through the snow.

v. To convey or throw in a rough or hasty way, as if with a shovel: He shoveled the food into his mouth.

v. To clear or excavate with or as if with a shovel: shoveling off the driveway after the snowstorm; shovels out the hall closet once a year.

verb-intransitive. To dig or work with a shovel.

n. 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.

n. A spade.

v. To move materials with a shovel.

v. To move with a shoveling motion.

n. 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.

v. To take up and throw with a shovel.

v. To gather up as with a shovel.

n. 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.

n. A shovel-hat.

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

n. See the quotation.

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.

n. Same as shoveler.

An obsolete form of shuffle.

n. 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.

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

n. a machine for excavating

v. dig with or as if with a shovel

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

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

shoveled    shoveling    shovelled    shovelling    shovels   

delve    dig    turnover    cut into    containerful    fire iron   

wing shovel    bull's tongue    mouth of a shovel    pronged shovel    to shovel up    turning shovel    scoop   

shove   

shovelled    shovelling   

shoveled    shovelled    shoveling    shovelling    snow shovel    steamshovel    coal shovel   

peel    battledore    plow    scoop    skeet    slice   

Lovell    hovel   

spade    hoe    crowbar    axe    mattock    chisel    bucket    hammer    hatchet    tongs