Wikidiffcom vs Shovel - What's the difference?
wikidiffcom | 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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As a noun shovel is
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.As a verb shovel is
to move materials with a shovel.wikidiffcom
Not English
Wikidiffcom has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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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