shovel

shovel is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
2. transitive verb. To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
3. transitive verb. To gather up as with a shovel.
4. noun. a machine for excavating

   Synonyms: digger, excavator

5. noun. a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
6. noun. a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
7. noun. the quantity a shovel can hold

   Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful

8. verb. dig with or as if with a shovel

   "shovel sand"

   "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"

Synonyms

digger, excavator, shovelful, spadeful

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shovel:

hovels

Common word forms

shovels, shoveled, shoveler, shovelful, shoveling, shovelled, shoveller, shovelling

Words from these letters

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