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shovel-full

shovel-full is the obsolete form of shovelful.

Meaning of shovelful

Noun

shovelful (plural shovelfuls or shovelsful)

  1. The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.
    • One shovelful of dirt makes a molehill; a million shovelfuls make a mountain.

Forms of shovel-full

pluralshovels-full

Questions about shovel-full

What is shovel-full the obsolete form of?
Shovel-full is the obsolete form of shovelful.

Words near shovel-full in the dictionary

  1. shovel out
  2. shovel ready
  3. shovel test
  4. shovel tests
  5. shovel up
  6. shovel-full
  7. shovel-handed
  8. shovel-nosed
  9. shovel-nosed sturgeon
  10. shovel-ready
  11. shovelable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shovel-full (page history and authors); shovelful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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