Shovel

(noun.) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle.

(noun.) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace.

(noun.) the quantity a shovel can hold.

(verb.) dig with or as if with a shovel; 'shovel sand'; 'he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long'.

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• You didn't think your Cap'n was a-goin' to dig with a shovel, did you? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Sykes now addressed Mr. Helstone, who stood on the hearth, his shovel-hat on his head, watching him significantly with his little, keen eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Helstone lifted his shovel-hat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If he could have got a shovel hat he would have worn it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Still, they had not come upon Flintwinch yet; so the sturdy digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission by night and by day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Earth was shovelled in and tramped down about the chest until the bottom of the grave showed level and uniform. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They laid him in; and the men shovelled away, silently. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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