Shool

Quick meaning: Shool is a noun meaning To move materials with a shovel.

Meaning

To move materials with a shovel.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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)

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.'

Word Forms

• shools
• shooling
• shooled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shovel, scul, skeet, shive, shole, shud.

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