Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To gather up as with a shovel.
- 4noun
a machine for excavating
- 5noun
a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- 6noun
a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- 7noun
the quantity a shovel can hold
- 8verb
dig with or as if with a shovel
"shovel sand"
"he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"
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