Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.
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Examples for "shoveller "
Examples for "shoveller "
1 A shoveller was hurt when the gravel slipped a few minutes ago.
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.
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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