I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
steam shovel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
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Did he think that would work if she got him gloves and a rake and shovel ?
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He went into the nearest town and bought a proper shovel .
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In tears, I fetched my father who went to work with a shovel and retrieved most of the contents.
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Its workers did this the hard way, with sweat and shovels.
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The shovel itself had metal teeth so it could bite into a pile of dirt.
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When dusk had come, Wade put his shovel aside and moved down the slope to the dock.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They shoveled dirt back into the grave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All business has to do is back a truck up to the money bin and shovel out the appropriate amount.
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And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds.
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Kathy shoveling rain off a sidewalk.
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Men sit silently at the bar, pulling on Buds, shoveling quarters into the video poker machines set in the countertops.
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Most people shovel without claiming spaces.
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Parents are cleaning, shoveling, and even teaching to aid schools.
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You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain.