Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that a shovel can hold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as a shovel will hold or will readily lift at one time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The amount that can be moved at once with a
shovel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity a shovel can hold
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Examples
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The number of self-proclaimed experts on the internet only proves the point that one should take advice with a "shovelful" of salt.
A Shovelful of Salt, Part II: Trigger Weight and Gun Safety 2006
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"Don't you hesitate a minute now, Mr. Knapp," said old Mrs. Hennessy heartily; "if it's no more than to put a shovelful of coal on the kitchen fire, you call 14 ring 32 and I'll be right over."
Archive 2009-01-01 Linda 2009
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Twenty cents, thirty cents, fifty cents, sixty cents, were the values of the gold found in the pans, and at nightfall he washed his banner pan, which gave him a dollar's worth of gold-dust from a shovelful of dirt.
All Gold Canon 2010
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Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Canon 2010
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"It's just booful, the way it peters out," he exulted when a shovelful of dirt contained no more than a single speck of gold.
All Gold Canon 2010
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"It's just booful, the way it peters out," he exulted when a shovelful of dirt contained no more than a single speck of gold.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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Twenty cents, thirty cents, fifty cents, sixty cents, were the values of the gold found in the pans, and at nightfall he washed his banner pan, which gave him a dollar's worth of gold-dust from a shovelful of dirt.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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"Don't you hesitate a minute now, Mr. Knapp," said old Mrs. Hennessy heartily; "if it's no more than to put a shovelful of coal on the kitchen fire, you call 14 ring 32 and I'll be right over."
Are We Still Neighbors? Linda 2009
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Where the side-hill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.
The Silence 2010
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