A machine used to dig the ground and to lift and carry dirt and debris.
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Examples for "shovel "
Examples for "shovel "
1 If Molly needed help with the shovel work, Ali would step in.
2 An aide said: It is a misnomer to talk about shovel - ready projects.
3 Others just need some small tools like a saw or a shovel .
4 During the recession, Hillwood bought shovel - ready land from cash strapped home builders.
5 Rose saw Sam coming up the hill, a shovel in one hand.
1 Five minutes' walk along the tracks from the station lived a well - digger .
2 For years, every digger on the planet was drooling for a permit.
3 The grave - digger was staring into the hole with all his bulging eyes.
4 Dimple was there, working a posthole digger at the parking lot's edge.
5 Everybody knew that Grandfather Mole was the champion digger of Pleasant Valley.
1 It had left a trail of destruction wider than a tunnel excavator .
2 An excavator was hotwired and turned into a sort of armoured car.
3 Instead the only activity is a bulldozer and excavator reshaping the shoreline.
4 Once the excavator was through the top layers, the dig progressed quickly.
5 Steve Lyon said last month's trial used an excavator with a rake bucket.
1 The shovellers clambered into the cars and the steam power shovels helped the torrent along.
2 The coal veins were shallow there, and the power shovels could attack from the surface.
3 Great power shovels scooped load after load of earth.
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