(v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
(v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
(v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.
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.
Trowel
Definition:
(n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
(n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
(n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
(2) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(3) Anything, really, to trowel vaseline over the lens for a soft ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown segment.
(4) Molar tooth germs from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultivated in a Trowell-type culture, and different culture media were tested for their ability to support enamel formation.
(5) Based on the morphologic and physiologic findings, it became evident that this organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium at 25 degrees C can be successfully used as an in vitro experimental model for as long as 24 h. The organ culture system could be a useful tool, from the structural integrity of ceca observed in this study, in investigating mucosal function and mucosal response to drugs, carcinogens, trophic factors, and pathogens.
(6) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(7) We incubated mouse calvaria explants in Trowell-type organ culture dishes for one h and then added [14C]-glycine for two h. We dissected the interparietal sutural tissues for collagen solubilization by limited pepsin digestion.
(8) This rate is similar to that reported for Trowell's-type cultures with IMEM:F12 medium and 1% FBS.
(9) Colons from chickens, four weeks old, can best be maintained for 48 hours in a serum-free organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium-agar sheet at 25 degrees C. As determined by light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopies, mucosal architecture involving classical ultrastructure of chicken colonic mucosa was preserved.
(10) Both series were incubated in BGJb medium according to the Trowell method.
(11) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
(12) Finance minister Mathias Cormann lays it on with a trowel.
(13) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
(14) We used Trowell's T8 medium and conventional Hank's balanced salt solution to obtain high yields of islets with morphologically-intact cells.
(15) This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of cyclosporine to prolong islets isolated by collagenase in Trowell's T8 medium and Ficoll gradient separation.
(16) In this study, explants from 19 canine prostate glands were cultivated for a minimum of 9 days in Trowell's T-8 medium.
(17) The blood drips off Netanyahu's trowel and oozes between the laid bricks, like wet concrete.
(18) The six concrete floor test pads with different surface treatments (fine and coarse sand, fine and coarse broom, wood float and steel trowel) were evaluated for friction coefficient (skid resistance value) using a British pendulum tester both before and after pig tests.
(19) Results reveal that the islets isolated by Trowells T8 medium were less fragmented and had better fine-structural integrity than those isolated by the conventional medium.
(20) He wasn't even sure the bone was human until he carefully scraped away with his trowel, found a second, parallel bone, and knew he had a pair of buried legs.