Meaning

(obsolete or dialectal) A shovel..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A shovel.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) A spade.
3. To move materials with a shovel.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
5. To shuffle or shamble.
6. To go about begging.
7. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”).

Example Sentences

2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)

And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away.

The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.

1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'

Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […]

Word Forms

• shools
• shooling
• shooled

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