shovel

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  SHOVEL-NOSED STURGEON This fish is covered with bony plates instead of scales. The roe is made into caviar. Range: Upper and middle Mississippi Valley
• WordNet 3.6
  • v shovel dig with or as if with a shovel "shovel sand","he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"
  • n shovel a machine for excavating
  • n shovel a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
  • n shovel a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
  • n shovel the quantity a shovel can hold
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• Interesting fact: In the early days of modern theater, artificial lighting was produced by throwing pollen grains of the club moss which is highly flammable when placed on a hot surface onto a hot shovel.
• • n Shovel 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.
  • Shovel To gather up as with a shovel.
  • Shovel To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
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• • n shovel 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. The most common form of shovel is that used for removing loose earth, coal, or the like; it is made of thin iron, the blade square and flat, with low sides nearly at right angles with it, and a wooden handle somewhat curved, about two feet six inches in length, and terminating in a bow-handle. See fire-shovel.
  • n shovel A shovel-hat.
  • n shovel In zoology, a formation suggesting a shovel. See cuts under paddle-fish and shoveler.
  • n shovel See the quotation.
  • shovel To take up and move with a shovel.
  • 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.
  • shovel To cover up with earth by means of a spade or shovel.
  • shovel To use a shovel: as, to shovel for one's living.
  • n shovel Same as shoveler.
  • shovel An obsolete form of shuffle.
  • n shovel 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.
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• • n Shovel shuv′l an instrument consisting of a broad blade or scoop with a handle, used for lifting loose substances
  • v.t Shovel to lift up and throw with a shovel: to gather in large quantities
  • v.i Shovel to use a shovel:—pr.p. shov′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. shov′elled
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• Elbert Hubbard

  

  “The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”
• Chinese Proverb

  

  “Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.”
• Phyllis Diller

  

  “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

  

  “Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
• J. A. Dever

  

  “Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.”

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