Shovelled vs Hovelled - What's the difference?
shovelled | hovelled |
(shovel)
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. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
(US) A spade.
To move materials with a shovel.
(figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
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(hovel)
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
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To put in a hovel; to shelter.
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As verbs the difference between shovelled and hovelled
is that shovelled is past tense of shovel while hovelled is past tense of hovel.shovelled
English
Verb
(head)- I shovelled the snow off of my sidewalk.
shovel
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* put to bed with a shovel * steamshovel * snow shovel * coal shovel * shoveler * shovelfulExternal links
* (wikipedia "shovel")Verb
- 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.
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See also
* scoopAnagrams
*hovelled
English
Verb
(head)hovel
English
Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
Verb
- To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
- The poor are hovelled and hustled together.