Synonyms for shovel
Definitions
- n. 1
A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- n. 2
A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- shovels → excavators, diggers, shovelfuls, spadefuls…
Example sentences
- digger It is always the well-digger who is the most thirsty.
- excavator Sami was digging up his yard with an excavator.
- spade He's the sort of person who calls a spade a spade.
By length
- 5 letters
- spade1
- 6 letters
- digger2
- 8 letters
- spadeful
- 9 letters
- excavator4, shovelful
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (digger2 = 2 syllables).