Definition of Shovel

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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.

To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

To gather up as with a shovel.

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Shovel Quotations

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
Rahm Emanuel

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
Janet Street-Porter

Shovel Translations

shovel in Danish is skovl
shovel in Dutch is opscheppen, scheppen
shovel in French is pelle, pelleter, palette
shovel in German is Schaufel, schaufeln, Schaufel
shovel in Italian is vanga, badile
shovel in Latin is rutila
shovel in Spanish is espatula, pala
shovel in Swedish is skyffel, skovel, skyffla

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