What is another word for shovels?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈʌvə͡lz] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "shovels." One of the most common synonyms is "spades." Both shovels and spades are used for turning over soil, digging holes, and moving dirt. Another synonym is "scoops," which are typically used for scooping up loose materials like snow, sand, or gravel. A third synonym for shovels is "trowels," which are smaller tools used for more precise digging and planting. Other synonyms for shovels include "diggers," "hoes," and "mattocks," all of which describe tools that are used for various types of digging and soil work. Regardless of which synonym is used, each of these tools is an essential tool for any gardener or landscaper.

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Usage examples for Shovels

They did buck in with their funny bamboo oars, long things like bakers' bread shovels, with square or round blades tied with string to the end of a bamboo, which worked in a hemp grummet on a single wooden thole pin.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Far ahead I could discover groups of men with shovels, hastily burying those who remained.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Away before them were the fires of death, to which they were going very steadily, with a tune on their lips, carrying their rifles and shovels and iron rations, while the rain played a tattoo on their steel hats.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Shovels

  • Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
    John Wanamaker
  • Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.
    Jerry Coleman
  • Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.
    Chinese Proverb
  • The chimney-sweepers of London have also singled out the first of May for their festival; at which time they parade the streets in companies, disguised in various manners. Their dresses are usually decorated with gilt paper, and other mock fineries; they have their shovels and brushes in their hands, which they rattle one upon the other; and to this rough music they jump about in imitation of dancing.
    Joseph Strutt
  • To anyone who knows the business of investigation practically, Bacon's notion of establishing a company of investigators to work for 'fruits,' as if the pursuit of knowledge were a kind of mining operation and only required well-directed picks and shovels, seems very strange.
    Francis Bacon

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