shovel
Betekenis (Engels)
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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.
- A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
- A spade.
- Short for shovel hat.
Synoniemen
power shovel
digging tool
serve food
steam navvy
scoop shovel
dredger shovel
single-bucket excavator
backing-off
drag shovel
shovel dredger
onebucket excavator
monobucket excavator
one-bucket excavator
single bucket excavator
Frequentie
Met koppelteken als
shov‧el
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈʃʌvl̩/
Etymologie (Engels)
From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
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