A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

To move materials with a shovel. / (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.

One who, or that which, shovels. / Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.

plural of shovel

(British spelling) present participle of shovel

The act by which something is shovelled.

The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.

plural of shovelful

(American spelling) present participle of shovel

Alternative form of shovelling