shovel-nose

Outside the vehicle, there's a nice long bonnet finishing in a cutting-edge seventies shovel-nose grille and a bumper that juts out like the cow-catcher on an overnight freight train.

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Brooks Auctioneers, Bonhams and Butterfields' predecessor, sold a shovel-nose Lola T260 in London where the Can-Am profile is a lot lower in December 1997 for $250,000.

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Just then, on the slough, some Indians tore by in a long canoe (an antique shovel-nose war canoe), chanting furiously in the Skagit language.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

"A little too far out," replied Red-Cap; "why if I had been a hundred yards only from shore, it would ha 'been too far to row, or sail in, with that shovel-nose, without counting the set-nets."

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

"It must have been a shovel-nose shark," said Picton.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

Johnny saw the monster barely in time; for just as he sprang up with a cry of affright, and fell backwards into the boat the shark's shovel-nose shot four feet above water at our stern, his jaws snapping together as he disappeared again, with a sound like the springing of a powerful steel-trap.

The Island Home Richard Archer

The shovel-nose cat, really a deformed kind of freshwater sturgeon, with a great fan-shaped membranous plate jutting out from his nose like a bowsprit, jumps all day in the quiet places with mighty splashing sounds, as though a horse had fallen into the water.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

They got a "gang," or, as they called it, a "trot-line," to lay down in the river for catfish, perch, and shovel-nose sturgeon, for there was no game-law then.

The Hoosier School-boy Edward Eggleston 1869

A shark, like a midshipman, is generally very hungry; but in the rare cases when he is not in good appetite he sails slowly up to the bait, smells at it, and gives it a poke with his shovel-nose, turning it over and over.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

A primary mode of transportation, shovel-nose canoes were the go-to boats, "the pickup trucks," of the river tribes near the Salish Sea, Solomon said.

The Bellingham Herald: Sports News 2010