Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - shovel

(shovels, shovelling, shovelled) Note: in AM, use 'shoveling', 'shoveled' 1. A shovel is a tool with a long handle that is used for lifting and moving earth, coal, or snow. ...a coal shovel... She dug the foundation with a pick and shovel. N-COUNT 2. If you shovel earth, coal, or snow, you lift and move it with a shovel. He has to get out and shovel snow... Pendergood had shovelled the sand out of the caravan. VERB: V n, V n prep/adv 3. If you shovel something somewhere, you push a lot of it quickly into that place. Randall was shoveling food into his mouth. VERB: V n prep/adv