shovel
Meaning of 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.
- A spade.
- To move materials with a shovel.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
- To move with a shoveling motion.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
Information about shovel
- The plural form of shovel is: shovels.
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Hyphenation of shovel
shovel
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- shovel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shovel synonyms
Meaning shovelful:
Meaning power shovel:
Translation of shovel
- German: Schaufel, Bagger
- Portuguese: pá, escavadora
- French: pelle
- Spanish: pala, excavadora, palear
- Italian: pala, paletta, scavatrice, escavatore, escavatrice, spalare
Anagrams of shovel
Words that rhyme with shovel
Covel, scovel, hovel, pullshovel, reshovel, Lovel, antinovel, mininovel, nonnovel, novel, photonovel, renovel, seminovel, unnovel, Provel, grovel
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