Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.
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Examples for "shoveller"
Examples for "shoveller"
1A shoveller was hurt when the gravel slipped a few minutes ago.
3The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the snow-shoveller and coal-carrier and the storeman.
4There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller.
5The beak of a shoveller-duck (Spatula clypeata) is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale.
1The shoveler is a native species but is not endemic to New Zealand.
2The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.
3The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.
4The old man got a cow-milker and a shit-shoveler.
5For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day's work.
1It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
2That would not have mattered if I had not hurt my back in an eleven-hour fight with a giant broadbill swordfish.
Translations for anas clypeata