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Shovel with wide blade - especially appropriate for lifting snow or coal
A shovel is a tool for lifting and moving loose material such as coal, gravel, snow, soil, or sand. It is usually a hand tool consisting of a broad blade with edges or sides that is fixed to a medium-length handle. The term "shovel" is also applied to larger excavating machines, such as steam shovels, which are designed for the same purpose—lifting and moving material, see Loader (equipment).
Hand shovels have been adapted for many different tasks and environments. They can be optimized for a single task or designed as cross-over or compromise tools to perform multiple tasks. For example:
- A coal shovel typically has a wide, flat blade with steeply turned sides, a flat face and a short D-shaped handle.
- A snowshovel often has a very wide sideless blade that curves upward attached to a long, straight handle. It is designed as much for pushing the snow as for lifting it.
- A spade is designed primarily for breaking up ("spading") clumps of soil. A spade usually has a point and is designed to be pushed into the soil with a foot. Spade blades usually have a rounded face without sharply upturned sides.
- A gardening trowel is a small single-hand implement for breaking up clumps in soil. Gardening trowels typically have strong, narrow blades with sharp points.
- An entrenching tool is a collapsible and/or compact shovel designed for the military. It may have a spade-like point with sharpened or even serrated edges for secondary use as an axe or saw, respectively. Some militaries of the world (most notably units of the Soviet Union) train their servicemen to use entrenching shovel as a makeshift close combat weapon. This tactic has been widely used in the battlefields of the World War II.
U.S. military entrenching tool
Toy shovels are common playthings on sandy beaches or in sandboxes.
The traffic signs warning of a Work zone or Construction site generally show a person using a shovel.
Slang use: Shovel: 1965-1980 Harley Davidson Engine Design Called so by the "Shovel" shaped rocker boxes on the Engine Heads. Also called Shovelhead Engines.
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Gussying up the golf course
Gretna Breeze - Mar 28 9:48 PM If you confused the snow three weeks ago for an avalanche of golf balls and grabbed your woods and irons instead of a shovel, you're desperately overdue for several under pars.Save
Winter storm warning begins
Laurel Outlook - Mar 28 10:36 AM Don't put your snow shovel away quite yet. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a winter storm warning beginning this afternoon, Wednesday, and continuing through tomorrow afternoon. The storm could bring as much as a foot of new snow to higher elevations around the area.Save
Group to protest against project
San Mateo County Times - Mar 28 3:07 AM SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO You can't make all of the people happy all the time. That may be the lesson of San Bruno Mountain's Indian shellmounds, which were spared from a developer's shovel but are still a hot-button concern for some local Native Americans.Save
OAKLAND COUNTY: Communities explore adding safety paths; cost a big concern, opponents say
Detroit Free Press - Mar 29 1:43 AM Safety paths are becoming increasingly popular in wealthy Oakland County suburbs that used to consider the fancified sidewalks blemishes on the pastoral landscape.Save
Urbana council discusses snow removal issues
The Champaign News-Gazette - Mar 27 12:16 PM URBANA City council members want more Urbana residents to shovel their sidewalks after a snowfall. But they aren't sure the best way to go about it.Save
We shovel in food but not key nutrients
Orlando Sentinel - Mar 27 3:50 AM Most nutrition news today focuses on how much Americans are overeating and how all of the excess fat and calories being consumed are fueling an epidemic of obesity. But even though many are overeating, we might still be undernourished when it comes to certain key nutrients.Save
Sanchez pleads not guilty to fraud
Chicago Sun-Times - Mar 29 2:12 AM A onetime top aide to Mayor Daley and leader in his powerful Hispanic Democratic Organization pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges Wednesday while vowing he'd take the case to trial.Save
Break-In Suspect Strikes Deal with Prosecutors
WPBN Traverse City - Mar 27 5:16 PM On Monday Nathaniel Kath, of Kingsley, pled guilty to attempted malicious destruction of police property and operating while impaired. Deputies say last month Kath used a shovel to smash a window and break into the Maple City Health and Fitness Center.Save
Superiorland Yesterdays
The Mining Journal - 36 minutes ago MARQUETTE One of the Upper Peninsula s oldest business establishments, Peter White and Co., an insurance firm, has been sold by Albert Vallar to his son, David, and Gerald Harrington. Albert Vallar, general agent who owned the company since Feb. 1, 1961, is retiring.Save
Taking on a new challenge
Daily Tribune - Mar 27 11:19 AM HIBBING Mike Turnbull didn t have to shovel snow much this past winter, but during one of those times, he had an epiphany. Turnbull, who has been the head coach of the Hibbing Community College men s basketball team, had second thoughts about that job.Save
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