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- noun Plural form of
shoveller .
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Examples
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Let any youth just turned eighteen try to out-shovel two man-grown coal-shovellers.
Chapter 20 2010
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Two of the street-shovellers from '03 were on their way to the market.
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When the earth is to be thrown horizontally, shovellers are placed in a line at intervals of 3-4 m.
1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance 1982
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When the earth is to be thrown upwards, the shovellers are placed on successive steps at distances given by the equation d + 2h = 4 m.
1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance 1982
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Half a dozen shovellers got to work, slinging the sand over their shoulders out of the trench, the sweat pouring off them.
THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951
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How would their beautiful Hyde Park be spoiled by letting loose in it such an army of shovellers, bricklayers, hewers, and all manner of craftsmen!
Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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I just got word your head rotary is out of commission, but another is coming up from the east with a gang of shovellers.
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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By and by there was another ring at the door; and in a moment the servant-girl came in, saying, "The snow-shovellers are here again, sir, and they want to see you."
The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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Consequently, millers and grain-shovellers are especially liable to it, while next in order come weavers and workers in cotton factories.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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"You usually use three pickmen, four shovellers, four for your timbering crew, three sorters, and six on the wheel-barrows," Philander explained.
Man of Many Minds 1925
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