Shook vs Shool - What's the difference?
shook | shool |
A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
A shovel
* 1611' ''And the pots, and the '''shouels , and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
* 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
A spade
* 2010' "'''shool spade ''see'' shovel" (''A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)
To move materials with a shovel.
(figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
* 1898' ''The Winter's Tale [Annotated]'' by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, ''[Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives:'' 'Shool'', A shovel' and'' 'To '''shool on'', metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
To shuffle or shamble
* 1988' ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus'', Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-169-4, (page 652), ''"scuffle ''vb''...''2 syn'' , scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool''', shovel"''; (page 670) ''"shuffle ''vb'' ''syn'' scuff, scuffle, shamble, , , '''shool , shovel"
As nouns the difference between shook and shool
is that shook is a set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood while shool is a shovel.As verbs the difference between shook and shool
is that shook is to pack (staves, etc) in a shook while shool is to move materials with a shovel.shook
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* English irregular simple past formsshool
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(en verb)- The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
References
*Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel *
TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel , *
Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: shool — n a dialect word for shovel , *
Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 *: ''Definition of SHOOL... *: ''1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle *: 2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter