shovel

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

shovels

1.
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. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
2.
A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
3.
(US, broadly, especially)(especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
4.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of shovel hat.

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verb

V_es/s

shovels

V_ing/Gerund

shoveling

V_ed/pp

shovellingshoveled

1.
To move materials with a shovel.
The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)To move with a shoveling motion.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (shovel), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (shovel), equivalent to shove + -el.