Crossword clues for shoveler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoveler \Shov"el*er\, n. [Also shoveller.]
One who, or that which, shovels.
(Zo["o]l.) A river duck ( Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck ( S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, shovels. 2 Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus ''Anas'', with distinctive spatulate bills.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The shovelers (American English), or shovellers (British English), are four species of dabbling ducks with long, broad spatula-shaped beaks:
- Red shoveler, Anas platalea
- Cape shoveler, Anas smithii
- Australasian shoveler, Anas rhynchotis
- Northern shoveler, Anas clypeata
Usage examples of "shoveler".
As it died, the shoveler let out a massive scream, pumped through its head crest, reverberating, the sound almost deafening Galpook.
Cadool hurried far into the stockyard, approaching a shoveler with a semicircular crest.
Nearby, another shoveler, this one with a tubular crest sticking out of the back of its skull, lifted its head from the grass and also regarded Cadool.
Cadool hurried over to the tube-crested shoveler and gave it slap on the flank.
Finally it began to gallop, and, a moment later, it made a different, deeper, more resonant call than the one the other shoveler had pumped out earlier.
Another shoveler reared up on its hind legs to see what was going on, then, almost at once, it dropped back to a quadruped stance and began to charge after the tube-head.
This shoveler, at last, was spurred into motion, galloping toward the open gate, Cadool holding on to the base of its neck tightly.
The pounding of shoveler feet and their deafening calls were enough to break a few of the Quintaglios out of the blood rage.
But shovelers made deafening calls by pumping air through their head crests.
The navvies who used picks were paid nineteen shillings, the shovelers seventeen.
The pickmen were twenty-four shillings, the shovelers twenty-two shillings and sixpence.
A thief's cantra, Sunbright assumed, in a city where even dung shovelers used spells.
Where Nangi's family's house had stood there were now squads of sweepers and shovelers clearing their way through the lumps of blackened structures.
It did this with its mouth closed, chasing Aiken up one side of the arena and down the other while clowns, referees, animal handlers, manure shovelers, Tanu knights in spiky jeweled armor, and dignified officials tumbled over one another and leaped or levitated into the front-row seats, trying to escape the racing monster.