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Definition of Shovelful
1. Noun. The quantity a shovel can hold.
Definition of Shovelful
1. n. As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
Definition of Shovelful
1. Noun. The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shovelful
1. [n SHOVELFULS or SHOVELSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shovelful
Literary usage of Shovelful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911)
"The tune throwing one shovelful, on the other hand, varies with the length of
throw, but for any given distance it is the same for all of the earths. ..."
2. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"But let them remember that I do in every shovelful of it that was thrown up,
hereby enter my .... shovelful ..."
3. Clay Products Cyclopedia, Containing Important Information for Every (1922)
"2 or 7, page 149) by depositing each shovelful of coal on top of the preceding
one, and then formed into a long pile in the following manner: The sampler ..."
4. Steam Boiler Engineering: A Treatise on Steam Boilers and the Design and by Heine Safety Boiler Company, Heine Safety Boiler Co (1920)
"The crushed coal is shoveled into a conical pile as in diagrams 2 and 7, by
depositing each shovelful of coal on top of the preceding one, and then formed ..."
5. The Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens (1880)
"I forgive you your reviling of me: there's a shovelful of live coals for your
head—does it burn ? And am, with true affection—does it burn now ? ..."
6. The Muster-roll of Angus: South African War, 1899-1902 : a Record and a Tribute by J. Brodie (1903)
"... of the Angus Fencibles took part in the funeral obsequies, Major Fraser putting
the first shovelful of earth upon the coffin of our national poet. ..."
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