The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shovel \Shov"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shoveledor Shovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoveling or Shovelling.]
To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
To gather up as with a shovel.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shovel)
WordNet
n. a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, digger]
[also: shovelling, shovelled]
v. dig with or as if with a shovel; "shovel sand"; "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"
[also: shovelling, shovelled]
See shovel
Usage examples of "shovelled".
I reckoned it would have to be shovelled somehow into a toothmug, and was looking around for a suitable long spoon for supping with the devil when Stephen brought out his packet from the chemist.
She was sitting very still, moving only as the wagon jolted, looking straight ahead as though oblivious of the almost naked men, many wearing merely a scrap of trade cloth about the loins, who milled the crunchy lumps of yellow gravel and then shovelled it into the waiting cradles.
Standing on their half-moon-shaped feet, a man on each side kept them swinging easily from side to side while a third worker shovelled the yellow gravel into the top deck of the cradle from the mound that the cart had dumped.
They shovelled the slush into the buckets and as they were hoisted the thin watery mud cascaded down on the men below, so that it was no longer possible to tell black man from white behind their slick and glistening yellow masks.
Frank threw rny wet coats into the back of the car and shovelled me in after them.
She stood up, swivelled her polka-dot skirt straight, so the button and zip were at the back, then shovelled her feet into her black twelve-hole Doc Martens.
Then, neither man naive enough to want to linger, they set to work, the foreman holding the lamp while Rebus shovelled the contents of the bath slowly into the dustbin.
Through the open door he could see the progress being made, eerie shadows cast across the wall and ceiling by the lamp, as one silhouette shovelled shit into a bin, filling it noisily.
Tracy brought the bowl up to his face and, in true Chinese fashion, shovelled the food into his mouth with quick, economical flicks of his chopsticks.
An hour after he was shovelled under they were saying of the defunct - "he was always so good-natured" - as though the person in mind were dead a thousand years, a character of history, or a personage out of Nibelungen Lied.
They used the past tense in referring to me, they pitied me, they shovelled me under deeper and deeper.