Word Finder - shovels

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A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

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A spade.

Where practicable steam shovels are employed, even when it is necessary to break up the material beforehand by blasting.

Shoppers can watch videos, buy gift cards and browse thousands of items ranging from mattresses to exercise equipment, snow shovels to faux-diamond jewelry.

Many people use small shovels to manually take care of fireplace cleaning.

The clean up crew uses giant shovels to clear the apartment of the garbage.

Steam shovels are not well adapted to deep excavation unless provision is made for the rapid handling of the cars when filled.

Bituminous coal, natural gas and oil abound in the vicinity; the river provides excellent water-power; the borough is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance, its products including iron and steel bridges, boilers, steam drills, carriages, saws, files, axes, shovels, wire netting, stoves, glass-ware, scales, chemicals, pottery, cork, decorative tile, bricks and typewriters.

Limestone is abundant, and the city has various manufactures, including lime, foundry and machine-shop products, agricultural implements, planing-mill products, engines, steam shovels, dredges, pianos and silks.

As a manufacturer of shovels, in association with his father and his brother Oliver (1807-1877), he amassed a large fortune.

Then they are turned once or twice in their dry state by men with shovels.

The industries include coalmining and the making of bricks and tiles, spades and shovels.

Coal and iron ore abound in the vicinity, and the city, manufactures iron, steel, tin plate, electrical and telephone supplies, shovels, boilers, leather, flour, brick and tile, salt, furniture and several kinds of vehicles.

Among the city's manufactures are steel, engines, locomotives, radiators, shovels, bricks, flour, furniture and leather.

The wheat is shovelled into the pathway of the huge steam shovels, which draw it up to the ends of these spouts, where the buckets seize it, and carry it upwards into the elevator, and distribute it among the various bins according to grade.

Among the manufactures of Alton are iron and glass ware, miners' tools, shovels, coal-mine cars, flour, and agricultural implements; and there are a large oil refinery and a large lead smelter.

While Walter cut firewood, Robin and Roy cleared away the snow, using their snow-shoes as shovels, and prepared their meal.

Most strapped spades, forks and shovels have hafts with curved points.

Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it.

A few month later in Negril, local VIP's are donning hard hats and plunging metal shovels into the soil.

A few shovels of manure, straw and poultry manure pellets thrown over the top will create extra warmth to speed up the process.

These mules are equipped with saddles designed to carry two dozen shovels.

Dolls, action figures, doll's houses, dinky cars, small metal dump trucks and steam shovels, ragged stuffed animals.

He'll also love playing in his very own sand box, complete with buckets, shovels, cars and trucks.

Innovative snow-making machines create festive winter flurries in the atrium, allowing passengers to experience a white Christmas minus the frigid temperatures and shovels.

Golden Shovel - Buy two shovels, then bury one.

Certain weapon items like crowbars, shovels, fire axes and sledgehammers will also help you access blocked off areas.

It's really not necessary to use buckets or shovels; the best method for creating a sandcastle is "hand stacking", which means piling up wet sand by hand.

A few women in mining outfits with gold accessories and shovels are Gold Diggers.

The men found shovels and quickly unburied the coffin, the crying becoming more clear as they dug.