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coal shovel

n. a hand shovel for shoveling coal

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Coal shovel

A coal shovel is a shovel designed for shoveling coal, coke or similar fuels, and on occasions does a double duty removing ash from the fireplace, firebox or furnace.

A large coal shovel is used by the fireman of a coal-fired steam locomotive unless an automatic stoker is used.

Smaller coal shovels of similar shape are used to stoke domestic fireplaces.

Usage examples of "coal shovel".

I picked up the coal shovel and started heaving away some of the coal that was piled up against the back wall of the cellar.

She took the fire irons from the box, stroked a finger over the curved handle of the coal shovel.

They tell me it's just a matter of howsabout it, toots, and you can get out the coal shovel.

There was a metallic tzing as Susan withdrew the poker from the little brass stand it shared with the tongs and the coal shovel.

He had a moustache, and his beard was cut straight across at the bottom like a coal shovel.

Did she want to smash its author with a coal shovel for suggesting that reduced circumstances meant asking your servants to plump chintz-covered cushions insted of satin ones?

The excavation was done on the same morning that the cook complained somebody had used his coal shovel to dig in hard earth and had ruined the blade.

Jonathan Yarbeck was face-down on top of a small brass coal shovel and a brass-handled poker.

He ran into his tent and returned with weaponshis toasting fork and a coal shovel.

An old push broom and a coal shovel were propped against one pail.

He headed to the basement in hopes of finding the coal shovel that his father had once kept there.