Definition of Coal shovel

1. Noun. A hand shovel for shoveling coal.

Generic synonyms: Hand Shovel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coal Shovel

coal car
coal chute
coal drop
coal drops
coal dust
coal gas
coal house
coal industry
coal mine
coal miner
coal miner's lung
coal mines
coal oil
coal scuttle
coal seam
coal shovel (current term)
coal tar
coal tar naphtha
coal tars
coal tit
coal tongs
coal worker's pneumoconiosis
coala
coalas
coalball
coalbed
coalbed methane
coalbeds

Literary usage of Coal shovel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"COAL-SHED, a retailer's depository for coals. COAL-SHOVEL, a email ... COAL-SHOVEL-MAKER, a manufacturer of iron shovels for unloading coals from ships, ..."

2. Trade Foundations Based on Producing Industries (1919)
"The principal hand tools of the coal miner are drifting and cutting picks. drill, sledge, coal shovel, fork, and lamp. He must either keep thees tools in ..."

3. The Blight of Insubordination: The Lascar Question and Rights and Wrongs of by W H Hood (1903)
"The coal shovel is much more in evidence now than the " lee fore brace," and things being what they are the Lascar stands to score where the work is as we ..."

4. A History of the Colony of Victoria: From Its Discovery to Its Absorption by Henry Gyles Turner (1904)
"How little did these simple pioneers imagine that this initial effort with the historical coal shovel was to develop within the span of a human life into a ..."

5. A Neglected Era: From the Old Testament to the New by Edith Ross Braley (1922)
"A flat plate without a rim, an open coal shovel or ... germ of defilement clung to a plate with a rim, a covered coal shovel or an ink-stand with divisions. ..."

6. A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ by Emil Schürer (1896)
"... though they are so within, the following earthen vessels contract no uncleanness at all: a flat plate without a rim, an open coal- shovel, a gridiron ..."

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