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Anyhoo, all three of these migrations were of what might be called the Mongoloid racial type, or more properly were all sinodonts, since the characteristics of the Mongoloid type were still in their incipient stage, but sinodonty (a dentition pattern characterized by the presence of shovel-shaped incisors*, which evolved in Central and primarily East Asia) was a trait held in common among all members of the pre-Mongoloid race then, and the Mongoloid race today.

What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009

It was the wide, shovel-shaped blade of a Bantu assegai.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

Are you so basted in savory McCain barbecue sauce, Joe, that your candidate's cluelessness has, by some form of dry rub osmosis, infected your already shovel-shaped view of this global disaster?

Bob Cesca: Enough! Here's Why The Polls Are So Damn Close 2008

So (being an accomplished cavalier) he mounted it forthright and struck its sides with the shovel-shaped stirrup-irons; but it stirred not and the King said to the Sage, “Go show him its movement, that he also may help thee to win thy wish.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Native Americans and Swedes have these shovel-shaped incisors, too, and so would fall in the same race.

Three Is Not Enough 2008

He spread a bed of clay over the surface of the slab, in a shovel-shaped mass, set down the flower-pot at the wider end of it, and laid the pipe of the elder stem along the portion which represented the handle of the shovel.

The Magic Skin 2007

In engineering, a "spade" is "a vaguely shovel-shaped object that fits around and under something else, which holds it in place."

languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION QUIZ. 2004

The children catch small grasshoppers for their birds with a shovel-shaped instrument of open rattan work.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Every man among them — no women showed — was armed with a gun, and they loosened their shovel-shaped knives in their sheaths as they came, evidently regarding a fight quite as imminent as we did.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Motor power for the canoe is a shovel-shaped piece of bark 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches, each man having a pair.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003