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shovelful

shovelful noun: the amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.

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.
    • Two workers each had a shovelful of snow. There were two shovelsful of snow.

Forms of shovelful

pluralshovelfuls
pluralshovelsful

Origin of shovelful

From shovel + -ful.

Questions about shovelful

What does shovelful mean?
Shovelful means the amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.
What part of speech is shovelful?
Shovelful is a noun.
What is the plural of shovelful?
The plural of shovelful is shovelfuls.

Words near shovelful in the dictionary

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

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