What is "shovelful"

Usage examples of "shovelful".

After two more swings with the adz, he sets it aside and lifts the shovel, scooping up perhaps a third of what he has broken and dropping the shovelful into the wheelbarrow.

Yarrl nods and glances at Rek, even as he throws another shovelful of coal into the firebox.

He glanced at Zero, about fifteen feet away, who scooped out a shovelful of dirt and dumped it on a pile that was already almost a foot tall.

He brought each shovelful close to his face, to try to see if anything was there, before dumping it out of the hole.

Even as he tossed the second shovelful of wet clay and matted leaves to one side, the sergeant was beside him.

She waits for the shavings to catch before adding a shovelful of stove coal.

After several shovelfuls, he takes the heavy short limb he is using as a tamper and compacts the clay.

With a single easy bending stride, he slid his shovel crunching beneath the pile of stony dirt, half straightened, pivoted, and slung the shovelful into the fire, a smooth swinging movement, the heel of the shovel ringing on the baseplate of the door.

Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.

With even the few western Crusaders in understandable confusion amid the turmoil of their fleeing countrymen, the opposing ranks of English foot suddenly turned to left and right and trotted aside to reveal the grinning mouths of two dozen minions and sakersfour-pounder and six-pounder cannonand the grapeshot, caseshot, and shovelfuls of coarse gravel that they spewed into the close-packed ranks of gunmen and pikemen and halberdiers and swordsmen turned a partial rout into a general one.

The Archchancellor tipped a shovelful of Ankh-Morpork loam over his boots.

He was still stomach down, his German entrenching tool only half extended, lifting up shovelfuls of dirt and carefully placing them on a tarp.

This was one of the gardens she had not kept up, beyond the odd shovelful of terraforming inoculant from the recycler.

Then they marched to the first site and started shoveling and dragging, each of their giant shovelfuls the equivalent of ten thousand or a million native shovelfuls.

The lowest dung shovellers and ditchdiggers bend their backs to their tasks, for every shovelful adds to Cursrah's coffers and prestige.