shoveler

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that shovels: a shoveler of snow; a fast shoveler.
2. n. A widely distributed duck (Anas clypeata) that lives chiefly in marshes and has a long broad bill fringed with bristles, which it uses to strain food from mud and water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who shovels.
2. n. A duck, Spatula clypeata, having a very broad bill which widens toward the end. It is a medium-sized fresh-water duck of the subfamily Anatinæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The male is of showy party-colored plumage, with glossy dark-green head like a mallard's, white breast, purplish-chestnut abdomen, sky-blue wing-coverts, and rich green speculum set in black and white, black rump and tail-coverts, blackish bill, orange eyes, and vermilion or red feet. The female is much less gaudy. The length is from 17 to 21 inches. The eggs are about 8 in number, little over 2 by 1½ inches in size, pale-drab or greenish-gray. The shoveler is one of the best ducks for the table. More fully called blue-winged or red-breasted shoveler, and mud-shoveler; also shovellbill, spoonbill, spoonbilled duck, spoon-billed teal or widgeon broadbill broady and swaddlebill.
3. n. The spoonbill Platalea leucorodia.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who, or that which, shovels.
2. n. Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, shovels.
2. n. (Zoöl.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a worker who shovels
2. n. freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill