shovelling

English

Alternative forms

• shoveling (US)

Verb

shovelling

1. (British spelling) present participle and gerund of shovel

Noun

shovelling (plural shovellings)

1. The act by which something is shovelled.
   • 1828, Sir Henry Steuart, The Planter's Guide:

     The latter is usually executed two spits deep, with two intermediate shovellings; but in the work in question, we should go down between three and four spits, without any shovellings.

Derived terms

• shell shoveling

Translations

Translations

• Danish: gravning c
• Faroese: skumpan
• Finnish: lapiointi (fi), luonti (fi)
• Icelandic: mokstur (is) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: måking, skuffing, graving

  Nynorsk: moking, skufling, graving

• Swedish: skottning c