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to shovel
noun
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.
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You have to shovel the ice off.
"They don't want to shovel the driveways.
Young people will be there to shovel the manure.
Why drive several hours just to shovel sand for strangers?
How much coal to shovel into the furnace?
He literally had to shovel his garden out.
"You definitely don't want to shovel bent over," he said.
They return home, and Ethan goes out to shovel snow.
"How are you going to get these people to shovel a whole field?" Jakupi added.
So at some point, all of us have to shovel out.
And drivers can fall from scaffolds erected to give them access to shovel their trailers' roofs.
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