What is the meaning of SHOVEL. Phrases containing SHOVEL
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adj. pron. “ming-er” someone breathtakingly unattractive: She looked okay when we were in the bar, but when I woke up the next morning it turned out she was a complete minger. On fire and put out with a shovel, that sort of thing.
Nick (prison). He's spending a bit of time in the shovel.
Shovel and pick is London Cockney rhyming slang for an Irish person (Mick). Shovel and pick is London Cockney rhyming slang for prison (nick).
Fireman shoveling coal into firebox
Shovel and broom is British and American rhyming slang for room.
Shovels is slang for the spades suit in a deck of cards.
Shovels and spades is London Cockney rhyming slang for AIDS.
Shovel is tramp slang for a spoon.
Fireman's shovel. Also the step on front and rear ends of switch engines
Phrs. Very quickly.
Shovel and spade is London Cockney rhyming slang for a knife or razor (blade).
A miner's term for a short-handled shovel.
Fireman's shovel; old-style banjo-shaped signal
Fireman (shoveling coal into firebox)
Noun. Prison. Rhyming slang on 'nick'. See 'nick'.
Term applied to locomotive fireman missing the firedoor with a shovelful of coal and spilling some
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Track laborer. Name may have originated from the gander-like tremulations of a man tamping ties, or from the old Gandy Manufacturing Company of Chicago, which made tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels
Shoveller is British slang for a building site labourer.
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n.
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
imp. & p. p.
of Shovel
v. t.
To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
n.
A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.
n.
A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
n.
See Shovelboard.
n.
The shoveler.
v. t.
To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
n.
The shoveler.
v. t.
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
n.
One who, or that which, shovels.
n.
As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
pl.
of Shovelful
n.
A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shovel
a.
Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
n.
Shoveler.
v. t.
To gather up as with a shovel.
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