What is "shovelers"

Usage examples of "shovelers".

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.