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Meanings of shovelful in English

Portuguese
paletada

The quantity a shovel can hold.

paletada
Usage of shovelful in English
1
Even Holmes threw in a shovelful despite his place atop the leaderboard.
The Guardian
2
Pete dumped another shovelful into the wheelbarrow, the odor filling the air.
Big sky standoff
3
Scooping up a shovelful of snow he heaved it into the street.
The Assistant
4
Lindy dug into the pile and heaved up a shovelful of dirt.
Night of the Living Dummy
5
Each Quraiter who survived threw a shovelful of dirt into the hole.
The brazen gambit
6
He didn't pass a shovelful of coal in the hole yesterday.
Harrigan
7
Keep digging, your Grace -the South Pole is only a shovelful away.
The Irish Times
8
With an exclamation of disgust he threw out a last shovelful of sand.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
9
Next to them stood a man who applied the water after each shovelful.
Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs
10
The rabbi, blessing it, tossed in the first shovelful of earth.
The Assistant
11
I paused, halfway to lifting a shovelful of gritty snow into the barrow.
Voices in the dark
12
Then we want some more coal; there's only about a shovelful left, and-
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
13
Doing a spoonful of good instead of a shovelful of evil.
End of Watch
14
Nait restrained himself from tossing a shovelful of dirt on to the man.
Return of the Crimson Guard
15
The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave.
Les Misérables
16
One of the peasants was throwing the first shovelful of earth into the cavity.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
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Translations for shovelful
Portuguese
paletada
Shovelful through the time
Shovelful across language varieties
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