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Meanings of
shoveller
in English
Catalan
ànec cullerot
Spanish
excavador
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Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.
shoveler
broadbill
Anas clypeata
Catalan
ànec cullerot
Usage of
shoveller
in English
1
A
shoveller
was hurt when the gravel slipped a few minutes ago.
2
Ah, that poor
shoveller
.
3
The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the
snow
-
shoveller
and coal-carrier and the storeman.
4
There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and
shoveller
.
5
The beak of a
shoveller
-
duck
(Spatula clypeata) is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale.
6
Chris is from Plainview; he proudly said he was a faster
shoveller
than a man at work in front of the House of Blondes.
7
She saw him rejoin his companion engineer near where lay the
shoveller
with the covered face, and the thought of the terrible accident depressed her.
8
You're in the way of the
shovellers
,
Buck Ogilvy warned him soothingly.
9
Let any youth just turned eighteen try to out-shovel two man-grown
coal
-
shovellers
.
10
Father
Shoveller
mused a good deal over his pike and its savoury stuffing.
11
New gangs of
shovellers
strung on flat-cars were being pushed forward.
12
Zeb'll be the chap of all others to command a division of
shovellers
.
13
I can't say; depends on that gang of
shovellers
and the way they behave.
14
The
shovellers
clambered into the cars and the steam power shovels helped the torrent along.
15
Shovellers
(a sort of Duck) are gray, with a black Head.
16
Don't try to get across that hill till you put in five hundred
shovellers
,
Mr.
Other examples for "shoveller"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
lay the shoveller
poor shoveller
Translations for
shoveller
Catalan
ànec cullerot
ànec paleter
Spanish
excavador
paleador
Shoveller
through the time