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shoveler

shoveler noun: one who, or that which, shovels.

shoveler: one who, or that which, shovels
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Noun (1)

shoveler (plural shovelers)

  1. One who, or that which, shovels.
    • The sand was loaded by 3 shovelers into wheelbarrows holding 3.6 cu. ft. each...1910, Halbert Powers Gillette, Handbook of cost data for contractors and engineers

Noun (2)

shoveler (plural shovelers)

  1. Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.

shoveler meaning in Tamil

shoveler in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Forms of shoveler

pluralshovelers
alternative formshoveller

Origin of shoveler

From Middle English schoveler, equivalent to shovel + -er.

From Middle English shoulere, shovellewre, shovelere, schoueler, alteration of earlier schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard (“shovelard”), from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar and later itself replaced by Middle English -er, but not completely certain. Probably at least influenced by the shape of the bill and its feeding behavior.

Words formed from shoveler

Questions about shoveler

What does shoveler mean?
Shoveler means one who, or that which, shovels.
What is shoveler in Tamil?
Shoveler in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Shoveler meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shoveler?
Shoveler is a noun.
What is the plural of shoveler?
The plural of shoveler is shovelers.

Words near shoveler in the dictionary

  1. shovelbumming
  2. shovelbums
  3. shoveled
  4. shoveled out
  5. shoveled up
  6. shoveler
  7. shovelers
  8. shovelfish
  9. shovelful
  10. shovelfuls
  11. shovelhead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoveler (page history and authors); shoveler (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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