steam-shovel

See also: steam shovel

English

Verb

steam-shovel (third-person singular simple present steam-shovels, present participle steam-shovelling or (US) steam-shoveling, simple past and past participle steam-shovelled or (US) steam-shoveled)

1. Alternative form of steam shovel
   • 1918 February, Guy Elliott Mitchell, “Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked up in Rocks”, in Gilbert H[ovey] Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume XXXIII, number 2, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 205, column 2:

     [H]ere in America there are mountains of oil rock which can be blasted and steam-shoveled and transported by gravity to great retorts which will turn out oil and fertilizer in limitless quantities.

   • 1920 June, Archibald Rutledge, “Twenty Feet at Rimini”, in Reginald T. Townsend, editor, Country Life, volume XXXVIII, number 2, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 92, column 3:

     [I]n the tumultuous rootings of a potato field, in which hogs had long foraged and steam-shoveled, there were woodcock, squatting sedately and boring assiduously in the soft brown loam.

   • 1922 November 28, V. C. Heikes, “Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in Arizona”, in Mineral Resources of the United States 1921, part I (Metals), Washington, D.C.: [United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior]; Government Printing Office, published 1924, →OCLC, page 321:

     Considerable copper ore, steam-shoveled from Sacramento Hill and piled at Bisbee, was of smelting and milling grade, and some of it was put on the dump for heap leaching.

   • 1943 March 19, “Appendix DD: The War Shipping Panel [Opinion on Union Maintenance]”, in The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board: Industrial Disputes and Wage Stabilization in Wartime: January 12, 1942 – December 31, 1945, volume III (Appendixes to Volume I, Part II), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1947, →OCLC, page 234:

     Approximately eighty-five percent of the iron mined in the United States in recent decades has come from the ore ranges adjoining the upper Lakes, and most of all from the fabulous Mesabi Range, some fifty miles northwest of Duluth, now steam-shovelled deep in what was recently a frontier wilderness of snow, lakes and northern forests, […]

   • 2008, Terri Clark, chapter 7, in Sleepless, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 95:

     At first I was acutely aware of how close we were, but then—when Dan started steam-shoveling food into his mouth—I laughted and relaxed into the moment.

   • 2008, Coleen Murtagh Paratore, “Tucker, Jupey, and Stew”, in The Funeral Director’s Son, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 40:

     I'm steam-shoveling scrambled eggs and pancakes with syrup into my mouth next morning when Dad sits down with the newspaper.