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shoveller

[ UK /ʃˈʌvəlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill
  2. a worker who shovels
    a shoveler of coal

How To Use shoveller In A Sentence

  • A wheelbarrow pusher can complete a return journey of 30 m in each direction whilst a shoveller is filling a 50-litre barrow. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
  • The shoveller ducks are there, too fishing up with broad, flat beaks little crabs and such creatures as are in the mud, straining out mud and water, but swallowing the rest. Stories of California
  • The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
  • A good number of duck species such as dabchicks, garganey, pin-tailed, lesser whistling teal and shovellers arrive at the Appalangulam tank located inside the Guindy National Park.
  • He moved to New York and performed an untraditional roster of penniless actor jobs – yoga instructor, manure shoveller, railroad-loader.
  • Is the shoveller really just J Crew confusing his gofers for people? Lazy Thursday Blues: Early Edition
  • There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
  • Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit.
  • The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the snow-shoveller and coal-carrier and the storeman. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Why is Joe, a Fifties Edinburgh bohemian, so fascinated by forsaking his middle-class existence to become a coal shoveller?
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