What's the difference between hoveler and shoveler?
Hoveler
Definition:
(n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Example Sentences:
(1) There, I came to a muddy hovel and made my way down into a damp, dark cave.
(2) The scene in the hovel was a little muddled, and it was not until the scene with the flowers that the study of a man seeking in wandering wits a refuge from intolerable reality really came into the round.
(3) Nor am I living in a hovel with a dirt floor and no running water,” she said.
(4) I recently issued myself with an eviction notice for the end of April to get out of my little hovel – a threat already pushed forward from Christmas.
(5) A few kilometres away, outside the town of Azaz, 60-year-old Hamida is living in a concrete hovel with her two grown-up daughters.
(6) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie.
(7) March 23, 2013 Guardian executive hovel... 3.14am GMT I want a mini snow plough They're whizzing around the playing surface clearing snow at a furious pace.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) I walked for another hour and got back to my hovel.
(10) • thethirty-ninesteps.co.uk , open daily noon-10pm, noon-11pm Thurs-Sat The Hovelling Boat Inn, Ramsgate The Hovelling Boat, which recently celebrated its first birthday, was named after a pub that existed on the site until 1909.
(11) But everyone also does tons of drugs, makes really experimental music, does crazy shit and lives in a hovel with no heating."
(12) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie."
(13) Photographs in the Amnesty report reveal the filthy insides of Qatar's accommodation for the workers who build their air-conditioned palaces, malls and five-star hotels: dank, windowless hovels, dangerously hot without air-conditioning; primitive dormitories cramming together crowds of men far from their homes and families.
(14) I get by.” Squinting across the riverbed Cabrera could see a new neighbour: Sergio Avinia, 42, a recent arrival cleaved from a family in California, waist-deep in a hole, bare-chested and sweating, excavating a hovel with improvised tools.
Shoveler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, shovels.
(n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Example Sentences:
(1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(3) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
(4) The occurrence of invaginations in shovel-shaped incisors was 11 per cent.
(5) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
(6) God grounds to Hairston, who can't field it cleanly and tries to shovel the ball to second.
(7) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
(8) Upper anterior teeth showed high frequency of shovel form; upper lateral incisors showed less tendency of regression.
(9) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
(10) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said.
(11) What Victoria gains from shovelling the best part of $58m of taxpayers’ money into the touring F1 circus goes to the heart of the debate over whether the race should continue at Albert Park.
(12) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
(13) Benaglio manages to hook the ball clear, in a clumsy fashion, as though he's waving a shovel about.
(14) Percent peak treadmill oxygen consumption and heart rate with shoveling in the three groups ranged from 60% to 68% and 75% to 78%, respectively.
(15) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
(16) c) Compared with the Japanese, their teeth were characterized by a smaller mesiodistal crown-diameter (especially on the upper first molar), higher frequency of shovel-shape and lower frequency of Carabelli's tuberculum.
(17) Older workers may feel compelled to shovel yet more cash into their workplace additional voluntary contribution (AVC) schemes.
(18) It's like living in New England and being pro-"having to shovel your car out of the snow".
(19) Professor Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre, says given the past attacks on Iran, it’s highly likely to be shovelling vast sums into offensive technologies.
(20) The incidences of double shovelling were similar to those of the Guamese, but lower than those of the Hawaiians.