Synonyms of the word shovel


SHOVELCONTAINERFUL - DELVE - DIG - DIGGER - EXCAVATOR - MACHINE - SHOVELFUL - SPADEFUL

shovel

  • n. A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one…
  • n. (US) A spade.
  • v. To move materials with a shovel.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.

containerful

  • n. As much as a container can hold.

delve

  • v. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
  • n. (now rare) A pit or den.

dig

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
  • v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
  • v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  • v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
  • v. To thrust; to poke.
  • v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
  • n. An archeological investigation.
  • n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
  • n. A thrust; a poke.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
  • n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  • v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
  • v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

digger

  • n. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
  • n. A tool for digging.
  • n. A spade (playing card).
  • n. One who digs.
  • n. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  • n. (Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  • n. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.

excavator

  • n. A person who excavates.
  • n. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
  • n. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger.

machine

  • n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
  • n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
  • n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  • n. (computing) A computer.
  • n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
  • n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
  • n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  • n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
  • n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
  • v. to make by machinery.
  • v. to shape or finish by machinery.

shovelful

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

spadeful

  • n. The amount held by (or moved by) a spade (shovel) at once. A shovelful.

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