verb
- present participle of shovel; moving or clearing material with a shovel
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is ‘shoveling’
Examples
- He spent the morning shovelling snow from the driveway.
- The workers were shovelling gravel into the truck.
- She was tired after shovelling dirt for hours.
- They’re shovelling coal into the furnace.
- The crew is shovelling sand to fill the sandbags.
- I hate shovelling leaves every autumn.