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shoveller

shoveller is the alternative spelling of shoveler.

Meaning of shoveler

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Shoveller

Shoveller

  1. A surname.

Forms of shoveller

pluralshovellers

Words formed from shoveller

Questions about shoveller

What does shoveller mean?
Shoveller means a surname.
What is shoveller the alternative spelling of?
Shoveller is the alternative spelling of shoveler.
What part of speech is shoveller?
Shoveller is a proper noun.

Words near shoveller in the dictionary

  1. shovelings
  2. shovellable
  3. shovelled
  4. shovelled out
  5. shovelled up
  6. shoveller
  7. shovellers
  8. shovellike
  9. shovelling
  10. shovelling out
  11. shovelling up

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