shovel : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a hand shovel for shoveling coal
  

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• a shovel for taking up coals of fire.

Webster 1913

• noun a shovel that is operated by hand
  

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• noun a machine for excavating
  shovel; digger; excavator.
  

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• noun the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
  scoop.
  

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• noun a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark
  shove-ha'penny; shove-halfpenny.
  

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• noun a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain
  

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• a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, worn by some clergy of the English Church. Colloq.

Webster 1913

• verb earn large sums of money
  rake in.
  
  • Since she accepted the new position, she has been raking it in
• verb eat a large amount of food quickly
  gobble up; garbage down; bolt down.
  
  • The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

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Shov"el-nosed` adjective

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, used in burrowing.

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• noun a power shovel that is driven by steam
  

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• a machine with a scoop or scoops, operated by a steam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings.

Webster 1913