Catalan
ànec cullerot Spanish
excavador Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.
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A shoveller was hurt when the gravel slipped a few minutes ago.
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Ah, that poor shoveller.
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The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the snow-shoveller and coal-carrier and the storeman.
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There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller.
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The beak of a shoveller-duck (Spatula clypeata) is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale.
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It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
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That would not have mattered if I had not hurt my back in an eleven-hour fight with a giant broadbill swordfish.
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The shoveler is a native species but is not endemic to New Zealand.
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The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.
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The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.
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The old man got a cow-milker and a shit-shoveler.
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For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day's work.
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Fish & Game's 16th annual nationwide count of the Australasian shoveler duck, known as spoonies for their distinctive flat bill, is under way.
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He said estimates from last year's count put the population at about 14,000 but shoveler ducks were "very mobile" which made them difficult to count.
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A second pair of shovelers takes the turned material and turns it again.
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Shovelers, 'spoonbills' to many, are early migrants, moving out at the first frost.
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Blue-winged teal and shovelers may retain the eclipse plumage until well into the winter.
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The agent promised to telegraph for snow shovelers at once.
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I believe he's going after something to stimulate the shovelers.
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Yes, it was too venomously cold for snow-shovelers or anybody else to stay out long.
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Now, will you set the shovelers at work moving this stuff back a little way?
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It takes its name from its peculiar bill, and may be termed the Shoveler of Australia.
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The machine required two men to operate and was considered to save the labor of twelve shovelers.