Definition of shovel in English:

shovel

nounPlural shovels ˈʃʌv(ə)lˈʃəvəl

1A tool resembling a spade with a broad blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow, or other material.
铁锹，铲
an area of turf had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel
Example sentencesExamples
- A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
- ‘We can sell you snow shovels in Minnesota while we're selling you raincoats in Tampa and suntan lotion in Hawaii,’ Nooney says.
- You might ask similar questions about the Super Bowl, restaurants, and why snow shovels don't cost more when there is a blizzard.
- There were picks, shovels, knives, swords and axes.
- An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades.
- Hand tools such as spades, shovels, sickles etc, which currently attract a 16 per cent excise duty will also be fully exempt.
- Individuals don't know where their ice scrapers, snow shovels, winter boots and hats are.
- Sharpen hoes, spades, shovels etc. with an angle grinder on a new file.
- Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners.
- The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines.
- We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with.
- We've traded in our snow shovels for kayaks and intend to make the most of our new home.
- He comes over the snow with a shovel and an old dog and scoops up a heap of bare soil left by the moles at night.
- Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka.
- Time to put your rakes away and get your snow shovels ready!
- Make sure you have snowmelt and a snow shovel on hand.
- Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave.
- All rescuers and volunteers had to use were shovels, picks and spades.
- To give relief to farmers, he announced a series of measures including total exemption from excise duty on tractors, dairy machinery and hand tools like spades and shovels.
- After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold.
Synonyms
spade, scoop
Australian/New Zealand banjo
archaic peel
1. 1.1 A machine or part of a machine having a shape or function similar to that of a shovel.
  铲状物；挖掘机
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you are mining by open pit, your haul trucks and shovels will be diesel or electric.
  Carefully watching the soil flowing around the front cultivator shovels and crop plants helps the operator to keep the shovels adjusted precisely where they need to be.
  Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge.
  On any construction site you see hydraulically-operated machinery in the form of bulldozers, backhoes, shovels, loaders, fork lifts and cranes.
  The JCBs on offer have large shovels on hydraulic arms, and you operate them from within a perspex cabin atop a pair of tank-style tracks.
  A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface.
2. 1.2 An amount of something carried or moved with a shovel.
  一铁锹之量
  a few shovels of earth
  几锹土。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Adding a few shovels of soil will also help get the pile off to a good start; soil adds commonly found decomposing organisms.
  I mixed one shovel of Portland cement to five shovels of sand, filled the whole area with this mix, tamped it, and then sprinkled it with water.
  This mixture may mean 32 shovels of sand for one person and 28 shovels for another.
  Labor fatigue is reduced because of the low loading height, and employees do not have to count shovels of sand and guess whether the ratio is correct because the hopper is a consistent measurement.
  To this day, the Government has not moved a shovel at the proposed site.
  They are out with shovels of gravel and buckets of tar when major repair work is necessary.
  Everyone was tense as shovels of dirt were tossed into the air.

verbshovels, shovelled, shovelling, shoveled, shoveling ˈʃʌv(ə)lˈʃəvəl

1with object and adverbial Move (coal, earth, snow, or a similar substance) with a shovel.
铲（煤、土、雪或类似之物）
she shovelled coal on the fire
她把煤铲到火上。
Example sentencesExamples
- He survived the Bataan Death March and was forced to spend over two years shovelling coal in a mine operated by a Japanese firm.
- Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers.
- I stood outside my small office on the corner of Union and Crescent Streets, shoveling the snow off the walkway.
- Since he cannot shovel snow because of his heart condition she ‘struggles to do this’.
- It was Christmas Eve and Joey was supposed to be shoveling the snow.
- I looked down to the ground and saw Henry shoveling some snow.
- As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up.
- I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin.
- She went out and helped the boys shovel snow out of the drive and part of the street.
- Once the first few inches of ice formed, men were put on the ice to shovel any snow that fell.
- Firemen shovel coal on to the fire in the cab and make sure there is enough water in the boiler, while also watching out for any track obstructions.
- In 1802 the City leaders ordered the levelling of the adjacent Bunker Hill, shovelling the earth and rocks into the pond.
- Amelie's father, Jean-Francois and mother, Dominique shovelled earth around the base of the young tree, watched by her sister, Virginie.
- In his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor had written about Schmidt, whose job was to shovel coal.
- I would have shoveled snow for an hour if I had had to.
- Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light.
- Marcus opened up a bin of coal and began to shovel the black substance into the top of the blast furnace.
- Have your kids help shovel the snow off the driveway and use that excess snow to build a huge snow fort.
- I told him to stop shoveling the snow off until I told him when they could continue.
- Both are better off if the child next door shovels the snow.
Synonyms
scoop (up), spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, spoon, ladle, toss
1. 1.1informal Put or push (something, typically food) somewhere quickly and in large quantities.
  〈非正式〉把…胡乱和快速放入；大量投入
  Dave was shovelling pasta into his mouth
  戴夫正大口大口地吃通心面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He shoveled the food onto his plate roughly, as if he hadn't eaten in days.
  Jilli left it at that and placed the eggs in front of her husband, sitting down next to him and shovelling the food into her mouth.
  I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze.
  The second I told him to eat, he threw himself into a chair and began shoveling the food into his mouth.
  He sat down, opened it up and began shoveling the food in greedily.
  After getting his serving of food he started shoveling the food into his mouth.
  Ren muttered, quickly beginning to shovel his food into his mouth.
  Jon shoveled pasta salad into his mouth to emphasise his point.
  She shoveled food onto her plate, inhaling the scents of chicken and ribs happily, then piling vegetables on twice as unhappily.
  Apparently I'm a bad enough singer that it makes her laugh, and when she opens her mouth to laugh, I can shovel food in.
  Larkin began shoveling food on his plate, seeming to favor the pears.
  He regretfully stopped shoveling food onto his plate, and only ate half of what he put on there.
  She lapped up her food happily and I turned back to my plate and started shoveling food in my mouth.
  You hate him instantly in his first scene, as he shovels food into his mouth while barking orders to his staff.
  Skye got very annoyed very quickly, and shoveled her food in her mouth as fast as she could with her fork.
  Five minutes later they were sitting down at the table wrapped in towels and shoveling food in their mouths.
  Lila only glared and shoveled some food in her mouth.
  He silently shovelled food onto his plate and started eating.
  I watched in horror as children and adults alike shoveled food into their mouths without a second thought.
  ‘It's about time,’ cried Adam impatiently, snatching his plate and shoveling food into his mouth.
  Synonyms
  eat up, finish, consume, devour, eat greedily, guzzle, feast on, binge-eat, wolf down, down, bolt

Derivatives

shovelful

nounPlural shovelfuls ˈʃʌv(ə)lfʊl

Every shovelful of dirt taken from the floodway increases its capacity to carry excess water to the north.
Example sentencesExamples
- Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in.
- All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row.
- You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting.
- I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture.

Origin

Old English scofl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoffel, German Schaufel, also to the verb shove.

Rhymes

Lovell

Definition of shovel in US English:

shovel

nounˈʃəvəlˈSHəvəl

1A tool with a broad flat blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow or other material.
铁锹，铲
Example sentencesExamples
- Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka.
- He comes over the snow with a shovel and an old dog and scoops up a heap of bare soil left by the moles at night.
- All rescuers and volunteers had to use were shovels, picks and spades.
- Make sure you have snowmelt and a snow shovel on hand.
- There were picks, shovels, knives, swords and axes.
- Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave.
- Sharpen hoes, spades, shovels etc. with an angle grinder on a new file.
- You might ask similar questions about the Super Bowl, restaurants, and why snow shovels don't cost more when there is a blizzard.
- Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners.
- A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
- To give relief to farmers, he announced a series of measures including total exemption from excise duty on tractors, dairy machinery and hand tools like spades and shovels.
- An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades.
- Hand tools such as spades, shovels, sickles etc, which currently attract a 16 per cent excise duty will also be fully exempt.
- After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold.
- Time to put your rakes away and get your snow shovels ready!
- ‘We can sell you snow shovels in Minnesota while we're selling you raincoats in Tampa and suntan lotion in Hawaii,’ Nooney says.
- We've traded in our snow shovels for kayaks and intend to make the most of our new home.
- The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines.
- We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with.
- Individuals don't know where their ice scrapers, snow shovels, winter boots and hats are.
Synonyms
spade, scoop
1. 1.1 A machine or part of a machine having a shape or function similar to that of a shovel.
  铲状物；挖掘机
  Example sentencesExamples
  Carefully watching the soil flowing around the front cultivator shovels and crop plants helps the operator to keep the shovels adjusted precisely where they need to be.
  On any construction site you see hydraulically-operated machinery in the form of bulldozers, backhoes, shovels, loaders, fork lifts and cranes.
  Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge.
  If you are mining by open pit, your haul trucks and shovels will be diesel or electric.
  The JCBs on offer have large shovels on hydraulic arms, and you operate them from within a perspex cabin atop a pair of tank-style tracks.
  A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface.
2. 1.2 An amount of something carried or moved with a shovel.
  一铁锹之量
  a few shovels of earth
  几锹土。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This mixture may mean 32 shovels of sand for one person and 28 shovels for another.
  Adding a few shovels of soil will also help get the pile off to a good start; soil adds commonly found decomposing organisms.
  They are out with shovels of gravel and buckets of tar when major repair work is necessary.
  I mixed one shovel of Portland cement to five shovels of sand, filled the whole area with this mix, tamped it, and then sprinkled it with water.
  Labor fatigue is reduced because of the low loading height, and employees do not have to count shovels of sand and guess whether the ratio is correct because the hopper is a consistent measurement.
  Everyone was tense as shovels of dirt were tossed into the air.
  To this day, the Government has not moved a shovel at the proposed site.

verbˈʃəvəlˈSHəvəl

1with object and adverbial Move (coal, earth, snow, or a similar substance) with a shovel.
铲（煤、土、雪或类似之物）
she shoveled coal on the fire
她把煤铲到火上。
Example sentencesExamples
- Since he cannot shovel snow because of his heart condition she ‘struggles to do this’.
- As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up.
- I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin.
- She went out and helped the boys shovel snow out of the drive and part of the street.
- Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light.
- I looked down to the ground and saw Henry shoveling some snow.
- Marcus opened up a bin of coal and began to shovel the black substance into the top of the blast furnace.
- Have your kids help shovel the snow off the driveway and use that excess snow to build a huge snow fort.
- Firemen shovel coal on to the fire in the cab and make sure there is enough water in the boiler, while also watching out for any track obstructions.
- Amelie's father, Jean-Francois and mother, Dominique shovelled earth around the base of the young tree, watched by her sister, Virginie.
- Once the first few inches of ice formed, men were put on the ice to shovel any snow that fell.
- Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers.
- It was Christmas Eve and Joey was supposed to be shoveling the snow.
- He survived the Bataan Death March and was forced to spend over two years shovelling coal in a mine operated by a Japanese firm.
- In 1802 the City leaders ordered the levelling of the adjacent Bunker Hill, shovelling the earth and rocks into the pond.
- I stood outside my small office on the corner of Union and Crescent Streets, shoveling the snow off the walkway.
- I told him to stop shoveling the snow off until I told him when they could continue.
- Both are better off if the child next door shovels the snow.
- In his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor had written about Schmidt, whose job was to shovel coal.
- I would have shoveled snow for an hour if I had had to.
Synonyms
scoop, scoop up, spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, spoon, ladle, toss
1. 1.1 Remove snow from (an area) with a shovel.
  I'll clean the basement and shovel the walk
  Example sentencesExamples
  Canmore town council approved first and second readings for a bylaw that will require Canmorites to shovel their sidewalks within 48 hours of snow falling.
  At five Christine got up to go out and shovel the walk.
  Mark and I managed to shovel the walk and kick a pile of leaves that Wendy had piled up so our work is done.
  I had started walking dogs for a dollar, cleaning off snow from cars and shoveling sidewalks for a price that I bartered with individuals.
  I shoveled the back sidewalk while he stood in the snow, peering at me through half-lowered lids.
  The living room is quieter now that Jem Van Doren's next door neighbor has stopped shoveling the sidewalk.
  I pay the kid down the street $2 to shovel my walk, and his mother thinks it builds character.
  There's a little over a foot on the ground now, and we'll soon be heading out to my aunt's house to shovel her sidewalk and walkway!
  As for Vikings fans, well, don't they have a bunch of snow to shovel or something?
  As I suspected, he's doing a ridiculously thorough job - not just shoveling the places people walk but almost every inch of space between the front edge of the house and the curb.
  The city's snow - clearing trucks were slow off the mark, leaving angry shopkeepers to shovel their pavements.
  I like how all the grandmas from within flirt with me when I shovel the sidewalk.
  The only sounds I heard were the neighbors shoveling their walks and the spinning of tires trying to make it up the 30th Street hill.
  Normally on winter trips, I'd shovel out a small kitchen area, light up the stove, cook dinner and retire to my bag with a hot drink, all within an hour or so.
  I understand that you think you're doing the right thing when you shovel the sidewalks outside your houses.
  After shoveling off my front walk, stairs and the area in front of my garage yesterday, we are to get another 6 inches of snow.
  Besides, we're going to be trapped inside or shoveling snow the next couple days.
  Then I shoveled all the toys into the center of the room.
  In the winter you worked shoveling sidewalks and setting up pins in the bowling alley.
  Thanks a ton, but a five-day forecast doesn't shovel the walk.
2. 1.2informal Put or push (something, typically food) somewhere quickly and in large quantities.
  〈非正式〉把…胡乱和快速放入；大量投入
  Dave was shoveling pasta into his mouth
  戴夫正大口大口地吃通心面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You hate him instantly in his first scene, as he shovels food into his mouth while barking orders to his staff.
  Lila only glared and shoveled some food in her mouth.
  He silently shovelled food onto his plate and started eating.
  Larkin began shoveling food on his plate, seeming to favor the pears.
  Five minutes later they were sitting down at the table wrapped in towels and shoveling food in their mouths.
  She shoveled food onto her plate, inhaling the scents of chicken and ribs happily, then piling vegetables on twice as unhappily.
  She lapped up her food happily and I turned back to my plate and started shoveling food in my mouth.
  He regretfully stopped shoveling food onto his plate, and only ate half of what he put on there.
  I watched in horror as children and adults alike shoveled food into their mouths without a second thought.
  ‘It's about time,’ cried Adam impatiently, snatching his plate and shoveling food into his mouth.
  Jilli left it at that and placed the eggs in front of her husband, sitting down next to him and shovelling the food into her mouth.
  Apparently I'm a bad enough singer that it makes her laugh, and when she opens her mouth to laugh, I can shovel food in.
  After getting his serving of food he started shoveling the food into his mouth.
  The second I told him to eat, he threw himself into a chair and began shoveling the food into his mouth.
  Ren muttered, quickly beginning to shovel his food into his mouth.
  I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze.
  He shoveled the food onto his plate roughly, as if he hadn't eaten in days.
  Skye got very annoyed very quickly, and shoveled her food in her mouth as fast as she could with her fork.
  He sat down, opened it up and began shoveling the food in greedily.
  Jon shoveled pasta salad into his mouth to emphasise his point.
  Synonyms
  eat up, finish, consume, devour, eat greedily, guzzle, feast on, binge-eat, wolf down, down, bolt

Origin

Old English scofl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoffel, German Schaufel, also to the verb shove.

词汇	shovel
释义	Definition of shovel in English: shovel nounPlural shovels ˈʃʌv(ə)lˈʃəvəl 1A tool resembling a spade with a broad blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow, or other material. 铁锹，铲 an area of turf had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel Example sentencesExamples A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. ‘We can sell you snow shovels in Minnesota while we're selling you raincoats in Tampa and suntan lotion in Hawaii,’ Nooney says. You might ask similar questions about the Super Bowl, restaurants, and why snow shovels don't cost more when there is a blizzard. There were picks, shovels, knives, swords and axes. An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades. Hand tools such as spades, shovels, sickles etc, which currently attract a 16 per cent excise duty will also be fully exempt. Individuals don't know where their ice scrapers, snow shovels, winter boots and hats are. Sharpen hoes, spades, shovels etc. with an angle grinder on a new file. Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners. The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines. We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with. We've traded in our snow shovels for kayaks and intend to make the most of our new home. He comes over the snow with a shovel and an old dog and scoops up a heap of bare soil left by the moles at night. Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka. Time to put your rakes away and get your snow shovels ready! Make sure you have snowmelt and a snow shovel on hand. Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave. All rescuers and volunteers had to use were shovels, picks and spades. To give relief to farmers, he announced a series of measures including total exemption from excise duty on tractors, dairy machinery and hand tools like spades and shovels. After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold. Synonyms spade, scoop Australian/New Zealand banjo archaic peel 1.1 A machine or part of a machine having a shape or function similar to that of a shovel. 铲状物；挖掘机 Example sentencesExamples If you are mining by open pit, your haul trucks and shovels will be diesel or electric. Carefully watching the soil flowing around the front cultivator shovels and crop plants helps the operator to keep the shovels adjusted precisely where they need to be. Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge. On any construction site you see hydraulically-operated machinery in the form of bulldozers, backhoes, shovels, loaders, fork lifts and cranes. The JCBs on offer have large shovels on hydraulic arms, and you operate them from within a perspex cabin atop a pair of tank-style tracks. A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface. 1.2 An amount of something carried or moved with a shovel. 一铁锹之量 a few shovels of earth 几锹土。 Example sentencesExamples Adding a few shovels of soil will also help get the pile off to a good start; soil adds commonly found decomposing organisms. I mixed one shovel of Portland cement to five shovels of sand, filled the whole area with this mix, tamped it, and then sprinkled it with water. This mixture may mean 32 shovels of sand for one person and 28 shovels for another. Labor fatigue is reduced because of the low loading height, and employees do not have to count shovels of sand and guess whether the ratio is correct because the hopper is a consistent measurement. To this day, the Government has not moved a shovel at the proposed site. They are out with shovels of gravel and buckets of tar when major repair work is necessary. Everyone was tense as shovels of dirt were tossed into the air. verbshovels, shovelled, shovelling, shoveled, shoveling ˈʃʌv(ə)lˈʃəvəl 1with object and adverbial Move (coal, earth, snow, or a similar substance) with a shovel. 铲（煤、土、雪或类似之物） she shovelled coal on the fire 她把煤铲到火上。 Example sentencesExamples He survived the Bataan Death March and was forced to spend over two years shovelling coal in a mine operated by a Japanese firm. Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers. I stood outside my small office on the corner of Union and Crescent Streets, shoveling the snow off the walkway. Since he cannot shovel snow because of his heart condition she ‘struggles to do this’. It was Christmas Eve and Joey was supposed to be shoveling the snow. I looked down to the ground and saw Henry shoveling some snow. As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up. I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin. She went out and helped the boys shovel snow out of the drive and part of the street. Once the first few inches of ice formed, men were put on the ice to shovel any snow that fell. Firemen shovel coal on to the fire in the cab and make sure there is enough water in the boiler, while also watching out for any track obstructions. In 1802 the City leaders ordered the levelling of the adjacent Bunker Hill, shovelling the earth and rocks into the pond. Amelie's father, Jean-Francois and mother, Dominique shovelled earth around the base of the young tree, watched by her sister, Virginie. In his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor had written about Schmidt, whose job was to shovel coal. I would have shoveled snow for an hour if I had had to. Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light. Marcus opened up a bin of coal and began to shovel the black substance into the top of the blast furnace. Have your kids help shovel the snow off the driveway and use that excess snow to build a huge snow fort. I told him to stop shoveling the snow off until I told him when they could continue. Both are better off if the child next door shovels the snow. Synonyms scoop (up), spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, spoon, ladle, toss 1.1informal Put or push (something, typically food) somewhere quickly and in large quantities. 〈非正式〉把…胡乱和快速放入；大量投入 Dave was shovelling pasta into his mouth 戴夫正大口大口地吃通心面。 Example sentencesExamples He shoveled the food onto his plate roughly, as if he hadn't eaten in days. Jilli left it at that and placed the eggs in front of her husband, sitting down next to him and shovelling the food into her mouth. I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze. The second I told him to eat, he threw himself into a chair and began shoveling the food into his mouth. He sat down, opened it up and began shoveling the food in greedily. After getting his serving of food he started shoveling the food into his mouth. Ren muttered, quickly beginning to shovel his food into his mouth. Jon shoveled pasta salad into his mouth to emphasise his point. She shoveled food onto her plate, inhaling the scents of chicken and ribs happily, then piling vegetables on twice as unhappily. Apparently I'm a bad enough singer that it makes her laugh, and when she opens her mouth to laugh, I can shovel food in. Larkin began shoveling food on his plate, seeming to favor the pears. He regretfully stopped shoveling food onto his plate, and only ate half of what he put on there. She lapped up her food happily and I turned back to my plate and started shoveling food in my mouth. You hate him instantly in his first scene, as he shovels food into his mouth while barking orders to his staff. Skye got very annoyed very quickly, and shoveled her food in her mouth as fast as she could with her fork. Five minutes later they were sitting down at the table wrapped in towels and shoveling food in their mouths. Lila only glared and shoveled some food in her mouth. He silently shovelled food onto his plate and started eating. I watched in horror as children and adults alike shoveled food into their mouths without a second thought. ‘It's about time,’ cried Adam impatiently, snatching his plate and shoveling food into his mouth. Synonyms eat up, finish, consume, devour, eat greedily, guzzle, feast on, binge-eat, wolf down, down, bolt Derivatives shovelful nounPlural shovelfuls ˈʃʌv(ə)lfʊl Every shovelful of dirt taken from the floodway increases its capacity to carry excess water to the north. Example sentencesExamples Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in. All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row. You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting. I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture. Origin Old English scofl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoffel, German Schaufel, also to the verb shove. Rhymes Lovell Definition of shovel in US English: shovel nounˈʃəvəlˈSHəvəl 1A tool with a broad flat blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow or other material. 铁锹，铲 Example sentencesExamples Much of the work is done manually using basic tools like hammers, shovels, axes and mammoties, a spade-like implement common throughout Sri Lanka. He comes over the snow with a shovel and an old dog and scoops up a heap of bare soil left by the moles at night. All rescuers and volunteers had to use were shovels, picks and spades. Make sure you have snowmelt and a snow shovel on hand. There were picks, shovels, knives, swords and axes. Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave. Sharpen hoes, spades, shovels etc. with an angle grinder on a new file. You might ask similar questions about the Super Bowl, restaurants, and why snow shovels don't cost more when there is a blizzard. Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners. A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. To give relief to farmers, he announced a series of measures including total exemption from excise duty on tractors, dairy machinery and hand tools like spades and shovels. An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades. Hand tools such as spades, shovels, sickles etc, which currently attract a 16 per cent excise duty will also be fully exempt. After propping the shovel against the side of the building, I stamped the snow off my shoes and stepped into the warmth of the office, closing the door against the cold. Time to put your rakes away and get your snow shovels ready! ‘We can sell you snow shovels in Minnesota while we're selling you raincoats in Tampa and suntan lotion in Hawaii,’ Nooney says. We've traded in our snow shovels for kayaks and intend to make the most of our new home. The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines. We will find work for you all, and please if you can bring a spade or shovel, brush or knife to work with. Individuals don't know where their ice scrapers, snow shovels, winter boots and hats are. Synonyms spade, scoop 1.1 A machine or part of a machine having a shape or function similar to that of a shovel. 铲状物；挖掘机 Example sentencesExamples Carefully watching the soil flowing around the front cultivator shovels and crop plants helps the operator to keep the shovels adjusted precisely where they need to be. On any construction site you see hydraulically-operated machinery in the form of bulldozers, backhoes, shovels, loaders, fork lifts and cranes. Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge. If you are mining by open pit, your haul trucks and shovels will be diesel or electric. The JCBs on offer have large shovels on hydraulic arms, and you operate them from within a perspex cabin atop a pair of tank-style tracks. A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface. 1.2 An amount of something carried or moved with a shovel. 一铁锹之量 a few shovels of earth 几锹土。 Example sentencesExamples This mixture may mean 32 shovels of sand for one person and 28 shovels for another. Adding a few shovels of soil will also help get the pile off to a good start; soil adds commonly found decomposing organisms. They are out with shovels of gravel and buckets of tar when major repair work is necessary. I mixed one shovel of Portland cement to five shovels of sand, filled the whole area with this mix, tamped it, and then sprinkled it with water. Labor fatigue is reduced because of the low loading height, and employees do not have to count shovels of sand and guess whether the ratio is correct because the hopper is a consistent measurement. Everyone was tense as shovels of dirt were tossed into the air. To this day, the Government has not moved a shovel at the proposed site. verbˈʃəvəlˈSHəvəl 1with object and adverbial Move (coal, earth, snow, or a similar substance) with a shovel. 铲（煤、土、雪或类似之物） she shoveled coal on the fire 她把煤铲到火上。 Example sentencesExamples Since he cannot shovel snow because of his heart condition she ‘struggles to do this’. As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up. I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin. She went out and helped the boys shovel snow out of the drive and part of the street. Bending over, she shoveled ashes over the coals, smothering all light. I looked down to the ground and saw Henry shoveling some snow. Marcus opened up a bin of coal and began to shovel the black substance into the top of the blast furnace. Have your kids help shovel the snow off the driveway and use that excess snow to build a huge snow fort. Firemen shovel coal on to the fire in the cab and make sure there is enough water in the boiler, while also watching out for any track obstructions. Amelie's father, Jean-Francois and mother, Dominique shovelled earth around the base of the young tree, watched by her sister, Virginie. Once the first few inches of ice formed, men were put on the ice to shovel any snow that fell. Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers. It was Christmas Eve and Joey was supposed to be shoveling the snow. He survived the Bataan Death March and was forced to spend over two years shovelling coal in a mine operated by a Japanese firm. In 1802 the City leaders ordered the levelling of the adjacent Bunker Hill, shovelling the earth and rocks into the pond. I stood outside my small office on the corner of Union and Crescent Streets, shoveling the snow off the walkway. I told him to stop shoveling the snow off until I told him when they could continue. Both are better off if the child next door shovels the snow. In his 1911 book, The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor had written about Schmidt, whose job was to shovel coal. I would have shoveled snow for an hour if I had had to. Synonyms scoop, scoop up, spade, dig, excavate, move, shift, heap, spoon, ladle, toss 1.1 Remove snow from (an area) with a shovel. I'll clean the basement and shovel the walk Example sentencesExamples Canmore town council approved first and second readings for a bylaw that will require Canmorites to shovel their sidewalks within 48 hours of snow falling. At five Christine got up to go out and shovel the walk. Mark and I managed to shovel the walk and kick a pile of leaves that Wendy had piled up so our work is done. I had started walking dogs for a dollar, cleaning off snow from cars and shoveling sidewalks for a price that I bartered with individuals. I shoveled the back sidewalk while he stood in the snow, peering at me through half-lowered lids. The living room is quieter now that Jem Van Doren's next door neighbor has stopped shoveling the sidewalk. I pay the kid down the street $2 to shovel my walk, and his mother thinks it builds character. There's a little over a foot on the ground now, and we'll soon be heading out to my aunt's house to shovel her sidewalk and walkway! As for Vikings fans, well, don't they have a bunch of snow to shovel or something? As I suspected, he's doing a ridiculously thorough job - not just shoveling the places people walk but almost every inch of space between the front edge of the house and the curb. The city's snow - clearing trucks were slow off the mark, leaving angry shopkeepers to shovel their pavements. I like how all the grandmas from within flirt with me when I shovel the sidewalk. The only sounds I heard were the neighbors shoveling their walks and the spinning of tires trying to make it up the 30th Street hill. Normally on winter trips, I'd shovel out a small kitchen area, light up the stove, cook dinner and retire to my bag with a hot drink, all within an hour or so. I understand that you think you're doing the right thing when you shovel the sidewalks outside your houses. After shoveling off my front walk, stairs and the area in front of my garage yesterday, we are to get another 6 inches of snow. Besides, we're going to be trapped inside or shoveling snow the next couple days. Then I shoveled all the toys into the center of the room. In the winter you worked shoveling sidewalks and setting up pins in the bowling alley. Thanks a ton, but a five-day forecast doesn't shovel the walk. 1.2informal Put or push (something, typically food) somewhere quickly and in large quantities. 〈非正式〉把…胡乱和快速放入；大量投入 Dave was shoveling pasta into his mouth 戴夫正大口大口地吃通心面。 Example sentencesExamples You hate him instantly in his first scene, as he shovels food into his mouth while barking orders to his staff. Lila only glared and shoveled some food in her mouth. He silently shovelled food onto his plate and started eating. Larkin began shoveling food on his plate, seeming to favor the pears. Five minutes later they were sitting down at the table wrapped in towels and shoveling food in their mouths. She shoveled food onto her plate, inhaling the scents of chicken and ribs happily, then piling vegetables on twice as unhappily. She lapped up her food happily and I turned back to my plate and started shoveling food in my mouth. He regretfully stopped shoveling food onto his plate, and only ate half of what he put on there. I watched in horror as children and adults alike shoveled food into their mouths without a second thought. ‘It's about time,’ cried Adam impatiently, snatching his plate and shoveling food into his mouth. Jilli left it at that and placed the eggs in front of her husband, sitting down next to him and shovelling the food into her mouth. Apparently I'm a bad enough singer that it makes her laugh, and when she opens her mouth to laugh, I can shovel food in. After getting his serving of food he started shoveling the food into his mouth. The second I told him to eat, he threw himself into a chair and began shoveling the food into his mouth. Ren muttered, quickly beginning to shovel his food into his mouth. I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze. He shoveled the food onto his plate roughly, as if he hadn't eaten in days. Skye got very annoyed very quickly, and shoveled her food in her mouth as fast as she could with her fork. He sat down, opened it up and began shoveling the food in greedily. Jon shoveled pasta salad into his mouth to emphasise his point. Synonyms eat up, finish, consume, devour, eat greedily, guzzle, feast on, binge-eat, wolf down, down, bolt Origin Old English scofl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoffel, German Schaufel, also to the verb shove.
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