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Shoveller

noun
1.
A worker who shovels.  Synonym: shoveler.
2.
Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.  Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler.





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"Shoveller" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a low wooded hill, then part of the manor of Merdon, nearly two miles to the south-east of Hursley, and in that parish, though nearer to Otterbourne. Several tenements seem to have been there, those in the valley being called Long Moor and Pot Kiln. Shoveller is the first name connected with Cranbury, but Mr. Roger Coram, the champion of the haymakers, held it till his death, when it passed to Sir ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge


Words linked to "Shoveller" :   broadbill, duck, Anas, worker, genus Anas


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