SHOVELS Synonyms

• a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying

• a machine for excavating

• a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

• A sexually loose woman

• dig with a hoe

• a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the best people or things in a group

• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

• a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

• a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

• the act of choosing or selecting

• select carefully from a group

• look for and gather

• harass with constant criticism

• provoke

• remove in small bits

• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits

• pilfer or rob

• pay for something

• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

• attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• eat intermittently; take small bites of

• the quantity a scoop will hold

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

• a large ladle

• take out or up with or as if with a scoop

• get the better of

• a worker who shovels

• freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it

• a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

• dig (up) with a spade

• an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

• a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

• initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

• produce buds, branches, or germinate

• a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials

• use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work

• a laborer who digs

• a machine for excavating

• a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying

• a machine for excavating

• the quantity a shovel can hold

• the quantity a shovel can hold

• a machine for excavating