Shovel

Definition: Shovel

Shovel

Noun

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

2. The quantity a shovel can hold.

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

4. A machine for excavating.

Verb

1. Dig with or as if with a shovel; "shovel sand"; "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shovel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Mining

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shovel

Canonicals

Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume.

Cleanness

Brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Furnace

Fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog.

Interment

Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.

Receptacle

Shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble.

Transference

Shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.

Vehicle

Shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle, loy; spud; pitchfork; post hole digger.

Crosswords: Shovel

I'm gonna go inside and I'm gonna get a shovel. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

I had my swimming pool dug by an International Projects steam shovel. It's a darling shovel (The Solid Gold Cadillac; writing credit: Abe Burrows; George S. Kaufman)

I brought a shovel. (Boomtown; writing credit: Alex Shearer; Paul Smith)

Now take this shovel and put it to some good use. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Give me a shovel and put some feed on my plate (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine ("Sixteen Tons"; performing artist: Tennessee Ernie Ford)

Pick and Shovel (1923)

Game of Shovel Board on Board S.S. 'Doric' (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West - 1800 to the Present (reference)

• It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel (Picture Puffins) (reference)

• Shovel It: Nature's Health Plan (reference)

• Silvered Shovel (reference)

• The Brave Little Steam Shovel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shovel That Evil (reference)

• The Pick, The Sickle And The Shovel [Edited Version] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Power Shovel (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ames 1564000 Dig-Ezy Jr. Hollow Back Round Point Shovel (reference)

• Toro 38310 Electric Power Snow Shovel (reference)

• Rainbow Gardener 24113RED Mini Round Point D-Grip Shovel, Red (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Original Station Winton North Base Mark displaced by steam shovel Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

High-centered at Station Rice Vern Burns with shovel Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Shovel Crew - arsonFoothillsBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Black and white photo of workers posing on a steam shovel. Credit: Unknown.

Caption: Railway: Train with Steam Shovel in Quarry; New Village, NJ; Unknown Date; {10.220/45} (jpg).

Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Steam Shovel in Front of Factory Building; Toledo, OH; Ca. 1895; {26.111/66} (jpg).

[H. Smith's ceremonial shovel of dirt] photographed by Robert S. Pumphrey. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[John Blake's ceremonial shovel of dirt] photographed by Robert S. Pumphrey. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photograph taken on board by Matthew Brady, soon after she was captured on the James River, Virginia, on 4 July 1862. This view shows her 12-pounder Parrott rifled gun mounted on a slide pivot carriage at her bow. A gunners' sponge, a shovel and a two casks are also visible. This gun was on display in the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in 1970. Credit: NAVY.

Uncle Sam picking up Mexican revolutionists with a shovel for the international rubbish can. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He took an old shovel and spread ashes over the moistened embers in such a way as to hide them completely

The shovel rose and fell and the dirt flew out to the pile beside the lengthening ditch

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Costa Rica

Construction equipment in high demand in Costa Rica includes tractors, backhoes, shovel loaders, asphalt mixers, and dump trucks. (references)

Indonesia

In 2000 (preliminary figures), the import value increased to $353 million, but US products' share decreased to 30%. American suppliers are particularly strong in the following areas: front end shovel loaders; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; coal or rock cutters and tunneling machinery; other continuous-action elevators; bulldozers; other bulldozers and angledozers; self-propelled boring or sinking machinery; buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs; other buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs of heading No. 84.29; parts of boring and sinking machinery; crushing and grinding machines for stones; and other crushing or grinding machines for stones. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

The shovel was said to have bloodstains matching Zavadsky. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "shovel": back shovel ♦ coal shovel ♦ digging shovel ♦ Fire shovel ♦ hand shovel ♦ individual shovel ♦ mechanical shovel ♦ power shovel ♦ pull shovel ♦ put to bed with a shovel ♦ scoop shovel ♦ shovel a path through the snow ♦ shovel away ♦ shovel board ♦ shovel cut ♦ shovel food into one's mouth ♦ shovel hat ♦ shovel in ♦ shovel out ♦ shovel under ♦ shovel up ♦ shovel up money ♦ steam shovel. Additional references.

Beginning with "shovel": shovel-hat, shovel-head, shovel-like, Shovel-nosed, Shovel-nosed sturgeon, shovel-off, shovel-shaped, shovel-sized.

Ending with "shovel": hands-on-regulator-and-shovel, pick-and-shovel, steam-shovel.

Albanian

lopatë metalike, lopatë (scull, spade, vane), kopelë me anë të kthyera përpjetë, heq me lopatë, hap me lopatë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغرفة (dipper, ladle, scoop, soup ladle, stirring ladle), ‏مسحاة (spade), ‏مجرفة (hoe, mattock, scoop, spade, trowel), ‏غرف (dip, scoop, scooping), ‏سحا (spade), ‏جوف (abdomen, belly, cave, depth, rebore, scoop), ‏جاروف, ‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank, wash), ‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏رفش. (various references)

Basque

pala. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разравям с лопата, рина (grub), тъпча (cram, glut, jam, ply, ram, squeeze, stodge, stuff, tread), трупам (cluster, congregate, gather, heap, hive, lay up, pile, roll up, run, run up, settle, store, treasure up), копая (break ground, delve, dig, dredge, excavate, fossick, grub, hoe, mine, navvy, pickax, scoop, scoop out), греба (dip, dredge, ladle, oar, pull, pull an oar, rake, row, scoop), насипвам с лопата, механична лопата, екскаватор (dredge, dredger, excavator, grab, navvy, power shovel), лопата (palm, scoop), бел (digger, spade, spit). (various references)

Chamorro

pala. (various references)

Chinese 

鏟子 (spade), 鏟 (spade), 鍬 (to dig), �"��"�, �'� (bring together, gather up, little bit, pick), 杴 . (various references)

Cornish

pál. (various references)

Czech

lopatka (blade, paddle, scapula, scoop, shoulder blade, shouvel, vane), lopata, házet lopatou. (various references)

Danish

skovl (baffle, blade, board, bucket, dipper, door, otter board, paddle, rotor blade, scraper, small trough, spade, trawl board, trawl door, trough, vane). (various references)

Dutch

schop (kick, spade), scheppen (compose, create, draw, write), opscheppen (boast, brag, dish up). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝovelilo, ŝoveli. (various references)

Faeroese

spaki (spade), skupla, skumpa, grava (dig, grub, spade). (various references)

Farsi 

پارو (Oar), کج بیل (Hoe, Scoop, Scuttle, Spud), خاک انداز (Dustpan, Scoop), انداختن (Cast, Delete, Drop, Hitch, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Relegate, Sling, Slough, Souse, Throw, Thrust, Toss), بیلچه (Paddle, Shim, Spade), بیل زدن (Hack, Spade), بیل (Spade), بابیل کندن (Spade). (various references)

Finnish

lapioida (to dig, to spade), lapio (spade). (various references)

French

pelle, pelleter. (various references)

German

Schaufel (blade, bucket, dustpan, fan, paddle, palm, scoop, scoopful, spade, vane), schaufeln (dig, scoop, shovels, to scoop, to shovel), Schippe (spade). (various references)

Greek 

φτυάρι (spade). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחת�" (fire pan, griddle, poker, thurible), מארופ�" (rake), מ�'רפ�" (rake, trowel), יע�" (dustpan, scoop, spade). (various references)

Hungarian

lapát (ladle, vane). (various references)

Indonesian

penggali (digger, excavator, scoop, spade). (various references)

Italian

badile (scoopful, spade), pala (blade, paddle, sail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie), シュタイナー学� � (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping), シャトル外交 (Chanel, chaperon, shadow, shadow cabinet, shadow pitching, shadow stripe, shadowboxing, shadowing, shaft, Shannon, shuttle diplomacy, soap, young women completely outfitted in Chanel clothing and accessories). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スコップ (scoop, spade), ショベル , シャベル . (various references)

Korean 

삽 (SPADE). (various references)

Manx

sleaystey (mix, mixing, scoop, shovelling), sleayst. (various references)

Mohawk

karihstohare. (various references)

Occitan

pala. (various references)

Papago

kuppiad. (various references)

Pig Latin

ovelshay.(various references)

Portuguese

pá (chuck, scoop, spade). (various references)

Romanian

ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), lua cu lopatã, lopatã (float, oar, paddle, pallet, Peel, spade), lopãţicã (blade, scoop), lingurã (bail, spoon, spoonful, tablespoon, tablespoonful). (various references)

Russian 

сгребать лопата, сгребать (rake, rake up, scoop in, scoop up, shovelled), совок (dustpan, scoop, trowel), ковш (bail, bucket, dipper, grab, ladle, scoop, trough), лопата (spade). (various references)

Scottish

sluasaid (a shovel). (various references)

Sepedi

sekopo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raditi lopatom, lopata (spade), ašov (spade). (various references)

Spanish

pala (bat, battledore, blade, paddle, palm, Peel, racket, scoop, server, setting, spade, spadeful, vamp). (various references)

Swedish

skyffla (hoe, scoop, shuffle), skyffel (hoe, scoop, spade), skovel (blade, bucket, paddle, scoop, vane). (various references)

Turkish

kepçe (digger, dipper, dipper dredger, ladle, scoop, skimmer, soup ladle, spoon), kürekle boşaltmak, kürekle atmak, kürek (hard labor, hard labour, oar, scoop, scull, spade), kürümek, faraş (dustpan), şovel. (various references)

Turkmen 

susguз, pil (elephant), idirdetmek (force forward). (various references)

Ukrainian

рити (cave, delve, dig, gopher, mole, trench), копати (bill, dig, excavate, gopher, mole, scoop), згрібати (rake up, scoop in, scoop up, sweep), екскаватор (excavator, navvy), лопата (banjo, spade, spittle), перелопачувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái xẻng. (various references)

Welsh

rhofio, rhawio, rhaw (spade). (various references)

pala, rutila, scutras, vatilla. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "shovel": shoveled, shoveler, shovelers, shovelful, shovelfuls, shoveling, shovelled, shoveller, shovellers, shovelling, shovelnose, shovelnoses, shovels, shovelsful. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shovel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oshivello, Rhovyl, Schokel, Scobell, shacel, shavel, Shavell, shebeli, sheivel, Shevek, shevel, shevill, shivel, shivell, shoel, shoove, Shovell, Shoven, Shover, showel, Shuel, Shuvalov, shuve, smove, snovel, sobel, tschoval. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hovels.

-1 letter: helos, holes, hosel, hovel, loves, sheol, shove, solve, voles.

-2 letters: helo, hoes, hole, hols, hose, hove, levo, lose, love, oles, shoe, sloe, sole, voes, vole.

-3 letters: els, hes, hoe, lev, oes, ohs, ole, ose, sel, she, sol, voe.

-4 letters: eh, el, es, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, os, sh, so.

+1 letter: shovels.

+2 letters: overlush, shoveled, shoveler.

+3 letters: flashover, havelocks, holdovers, overhauls, overholds, shovelers, shovelful, shoveling, shovelled, shoveller.

+4 letters: bolshevism, bolshevize, cohesively, flashovers, overchills, overlavish, overlights, overslaugh, overwhelms, shovelfuls, shovellers, shovelling, shovelnose, shovelsful.

+5 letters: bolshevisms, bolshevized, bolshevizes, bookshelves, herrenvolks, livelihoods, novelettish, overflights, overhandles, overslaughs, shovelnoses, slaveholder, videophiles.