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
alt. (context British spelling English) (present participle of shovel English) n. The act by which something is shovelled. vb. (context British spelling English) (present participle of shovel English)
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 "shovelling".
When I got outside, however, Steve was busy shovelling sand while Philip stood watching.
Battering the beanfeast barn-dancers and shovelling sitophiliacs to the right and left of me.
Jack fairly shovelling it down like a boy, then half a small tunny, caught by trolling over the side, and then their almost invariable toasted cheese, a Minorcan fromatge duro, not unlike Cheddar, that toasted remarkably well.
This accentuates the natural stooping posture which shovelling coal and the resultant over-development of back and shoulder muscles have given them.
I opened the door again and began shovelling hard, the shovel and the black coal lit by the lurid glow.
Those brown bastards in whose hands he had left La Belle Mer would be shovelling it all from till to pocket.
The obedient stone began to churn out piles of salt, and Ah Bong knelt down beside it frantically shovelling the salt into hessian bags.
Not safe, of course, but then neither would staying home have been, shovelling muck and branding cattle and likely as not ending with iron in his belly for something truly stupid: a cuckold mocked at a feast, a moved boundary stone, straying stock.
Hornblower found himself shovelling sea pie into his mouth as if the faster he ate it the faster the despatches would come.
They ate a large quantity of ox-tail soup, Jack fairly shovelling it down like a boy, then half a small tunny, caught by trolling over the side, and then their almost invariable toasted cheese, a Minorcan fromatge duro, not unlike Cheddar, that toasted remarkably well.