Usually means: Tool for digging, lifting, moving.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shovel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shovel: Merriam-Webster
  3. shovel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shovel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shovel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shovel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shovel, shovel: Wordnik
  8. shovel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shovel: Wiktionary
  10. shovel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shovel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shovel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shovel: Dictionary.com
  14. shovel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shovel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shovel (album), Shovel (disambiguation), Shovel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shovel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shovel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shovel: Rhymezone
  20. shovel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shovel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shovel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shovel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shovel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shovel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shovel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shovel: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shovel (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shovel, shovel, shovel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. shovel, shovel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shovel: Sports Definitions

(Note: See shoveled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
noun:  A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
noun:  (especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
verb:  To move materials with a shovel.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
noun:  Short for shovel hat. [(informal) A broad-brimmed style of hat, varying widely in detail, generally turned up at the sides and projecting in front like a shovel, formerly worn by some clergy in Britain, especially clergy of the Church of England.]

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