shooling

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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