transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃʌv(ə)l ]
( shovels, shovelling, shovelled)
Note: in AM, use 'shoveling', 'shoveled'
1.
A shovel is a tool with a long handle that is used for lifting and moving earth, coal, or snow.
...a coal shovel...
She dug the foundation with a pick and shovel.
N-COUNT
2.
If you shovel earth, coal, or snow, you lift and move it with a shovel.
He has to get out and shovel snow...
Pendergood had shovelled the sand out of the caravan.
VERB : V n , V n prep / adv
3.
If you shovel something somewhere, you push a lot of it quickly into that place.
Randall was shoveling food into his mouth.
VERB : V n prep / adv