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shovel meaning in Odia

ବେଲଚା

UK/ˈʃʌv.əl/

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Northern England/ˈʃʊv.əl/

shovel in Odia: ବେଲଚା. In English, shovel means a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

Odia words for shovel

ବେଲଚା

English meaning of shovel

  1. noun A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
  2. noun A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
  3. noun Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
  4. verb To move materials with a shovel.

Full definition of shovel

shovel in a sentence

  • The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
  • After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
  • I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.

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Questions about shovel in Odia

What is the meaning of shovel in Odia?
Shovel in Odia is ବେଲଚା.
shovel ର ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅର୍ଥ କଣ?
Shovel: ବେଲଚା.
What does shovel mean in English?
Shovel means a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

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Odia words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “shovel”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: shovel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Odia words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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