Crossword-Solution: SHOVEL 6 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Shovel 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.
Shovel 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.
Shovel v. t. To gather up as with a shovel.

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SHOVEL anagram HOVELS

We have 69 clues for the answer “SHOVEL”

Clue Answers
Hank Snow ______ 1 answer
Post-snowfall need 1 answer
Post-blizzard tool 1 answer
Pick's companion 1 answer
Pail go-with 1 answer
Murder weapon for Sam Spade? 1 answer
Move earth but not heaven 1 answer
Kind of clerical hat. 1 answer
Implement in the cellar. 1 answer
Post-snowfall tool 1 answer
Facetious offering to a heavy eater 1 answer
Eat quickly, with "in" 1 answer
Earth-moving thing? 1 answer
Digs large holes 1 answer
Digging need 1 answer
Colliery tool 1 answer
Coal or steam 1 answer
Clear a path, in a way 1 answer
Post-snowstorm need 1 answer
Sandbox scooper 1 answer
Snow implement 1 answer
Snow-removing tool 1 answer
Spade like tool 1 answer
Spade's cousin 1 answer
Stablehand's need 1 answer
Stoker's prop 1 answer
Stoker's tool 1 answer
Tool for getting down and dirty? 1 answer
Tool for moving, eg, coal 1 answer
Tool for removing snow. 1 answer
a hand tool for lifting loose material 1 answer
tool for lifting or moving loose material 1 answer
tool similar to a spade 1 answer
Big scoop 1 answer
Beach-pail partner 1 answer
Spade-like tool 2 answers
Snow clearer 2 answers
Earth mover, of a sort 2 answers
Pick's partner 2 answers
Scooping tool 2 answers
Broad-brimmed hat 3 answers
Make a Pile 3 answers
Winter tool 3 answers
Sandbox toy 3 answers
Miner's tool 3 answers
Tool with a blade 4 answers
Ground-breaking tool 4 answers
Work in the garden 4 answers
trowel 4 answers
Digger's tool. 4 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with SHOVEL (5)

But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Finally Huck leaned on his shovel, swabbed the beaded drops from his brow with his sleeve, and said: “Where you going to dig next, after we get this one?” “I reckon maybe we’ll tackle the old tree that’s over yonder on Cardiff Hill back of the widow’s.” “I reckon that’ll be a good one.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
She told me.” “The widow, hey?—and who told the widow she could put in her shovel about a thing that ain’t none of her business?” “Nobody never told her.” “Well, I’ll learn her how to meddle.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Then he started for the stile, and as he went over it the moon came out strong, and he had a long-handled shovel over his shoulder, and we see the white patch on the old work-gown.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
And you can shovel the snow too, if you want to--till you get over to Beacon Street, anyway." "I guess I can keep my own sidewalk on Beacon Street clean, if I take the notion." "I should like to see you at it," retorted his wife.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008

Quotes with SHOVEL (3)

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes
I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)
Frankie Boyle
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, S&S, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 48 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).