Catalan
ànec cullerot Spanish
excavador Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.
Synonyms
Examples for "shoveler"
Examples for "shoveler"
1
The shoveler is a native species but is not endemic to New Zealand.
2
The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.
3
The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.
4
The old man got a cow-milker and a shit-shoveler.
5
For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day's work.
1
It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
2
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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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.