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shovelful

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted efhllosuvStarts with SEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the quantity a shovel can hold

Word origin

From shovel + -ful.

Used in a sentence

  • One shovelful of dirt makes a molehill; a million shovelfuls make a mountain.
  • Two workers each had a shovelful of snow. There were two shovelsful of snow.
  • The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.

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