shovelling

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Synonyms for shovelling

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Antonyms for shovelling

Word Origin & History

Old English scofl, sceofol "shovel," related to scufan (see shove (v.)), from Proto-Germanic *skublo (cf. Old Saxon skufla, Swedish skovel, Middle Low German schufle, Middle Dutch shuffel, Dutch schoffel, Old High German scuvala, German Schaufel). Shovel-ready, with reference to construction projects, is attested by 2006.

Example Sentences for shovelling

Day after day we went on shovelling in, and about twice a week we made a clean-up.

"There is nothing like shovelling snow to make one sleep," we all said, after we awoke.

They were shovelling away the snow just in front of my door.

Let me go where you are going, let me work in your factory, if it's at shovelling coal.

I'd noticed it when I was shovelling down there, sir, and I thought that must be it.

Shovelling it down in haste, adieus are exchanged, with a hearty shake of hands.

No one was much hurt, and I got them to shovelling again as soon as I could.

He seemed to be working very hard, shovelling the air in at the door.

I am shovelling in the sunbeams, replied the man, to ripen the corn.

What do you make out of this world you and I have been shovelling dirt in now some years?