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shooled

shooled is the simple past and past participle of shool.

Meaning of shool

Verb

shool (third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled)

  1. To move materials with a shovel.
    • The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
    • 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
  3. To shuffle or shamble.
  4. To go about begging.
    • Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […]1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random

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Questions about shooled

What is shooled the simple past and past participle of?
Shooled is the simple past and past participle of shool.

Words near shooled in the dictionary

  1. shooks
  2. shookt
  3. shool
  4. shooldarries
  5. shooldarry
  6. shooled
  7. shooler
  8. shoolers
  9. shooling
  10. shools
  11. shoon

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