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Meanings of wooden shovel in English

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Usage of wooden shovel in English
1
Abe took a knife and scraped the figures from the wooden shovel.
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
2
Abe sprawled on the floor, making marks on a wooden shovel with a pointed stick.
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
3
Before long the cheerful scraping of the wooden shovel against the pavement restored his good humor.
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
4
I go at it lustily with my wooden shovel, clearing out a pathway to the gate.
Adventures in Friendship
5
The little water-gate was like a wooden shovel.
Out of the Triangle: A Story of the Far East
6
Upon such a wooden shovel Abraham was able to work his sums by the flickering firelight.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln / Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's...
7
First he sketched these with charcoal on a wooden shovel scraped white with a drawing-knife, or on basswood shingles.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
8
Now and again a third man comes in and pitches the gold into a linen sack with a wooden shovel.
The Poor Plutocrats
9
The foreman who was showing me shovel'd it carelessly up with a little wooden shovel, as one might toss beans.
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
10
The pizza counterman took his wooden shovel and scooped one of the cold slices into the oven to warm it up.
The Godfather
11
I furnished him with a wooden shovel evidently meant for the job, and gave the order for the men to file in.
With Kelly to Chitral
12
He hurried to the oven, grabbing a long, flat wooden shovel from the wall to pull a brown loaf out of the oven.
Heir of Fire
13
But he thought he should find it impossible to dig the hard earth with only a wooden shovel, so picked up the iron one instead.
The Grey Fairy Book
14
At night, lying on his stomach in front of the open fireplace, with a piece of charcoal he would cipher on a broad wooden shovel.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
15
Dogs ran barking vaguely about, and children with wooden shovels screamed at their play.
The Story of a Play / A Novel
16
That afternoon the kitchen was a carpenter-shop; the men brought in their tools and made two great wooden shovels with long handles.
My Antonia
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Wooden shovel across language varieties
United Kingdom
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