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English
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Pronunciation
audio|en-us-shovel.ogg|Audio (US)
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Noun
en-noun
Image:Schep.jpg|thumb|right|A pair of shovels
- A hand tool with a handle for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, grain, etc from one place to another. Not to be confused with a spade which is for digging.
- US A spade.
Derived terms
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steamshovel
snow shovel
coal shovel
mid2
shoveler
shovelful
Translations
trans-top|tool for moving portions of material
Arabic: ARchar|Ù�جرÙ�Ø© IPAchar|(mÃjrafa) f
Bosnian: lopata f
Chinese: é��å�, é�²å� (chÇ�nzi); é�µé�¬, é��é�¹ (tiÄ� qiÄ�o)
Croatian: lopata f
Czech: lopata#Czech|lopata f
Dutch: schop f
Finnish: lapio
French: pelle f
German: Schaufel f
Greek: ���ά�ι (ftiári) n
Hungarian: lapát
Italian: pala f
Japanese: ���� (shaberu)
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Korean: � (sap)
Kurdish: KUchar|خاک���از, KUchar|ب�ڵ
Latin: pala
Portuguese: pá f
Russian: лопа�а (lopáta) f
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: лопа�а f
:Roman: lopata f
Slovak: lopata#Slovak|lopata f
Slovene: lopata f
Spanish: pala f
Swedish: skyffel n
Telugu: పార (paara)
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Verb
en-verb|shovels|shoveling or shovelling|shoveled or shovelled
- To move materials with a shovel.
#: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.
Translations
Dutch: scheppen
Finnish: lapio, lapioida
French: peller
German: schaufeln
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Italian: spalare
Spanish: traspalar
Swedish: skyffla, skotta (snow)
Related terms
shove
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vi:shovel
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