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shovelful|ˈʃʌv(ə)lfʊl|
Also -full.
[f. shovel n. + -ful.]
A quantity that fills a shovel; as much as a shovel can hold or take up at one time.
1533J. Heywood Johan (1903) 654 This shovyll full of colys. 1658Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Wars Cyprus 117 One shufle-full of earth. 1711Addison Spect. No. 26 ⁋3, I entertain'd my self with the digging of a Grave; and saw in every shovelful of it that was thrown up, the Fragment of a Bone or Skull. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. viii, He stood over her, counted her shovelsfull of tea, and watched the water into the tea-pot. 1894Sir J. D. Astley 50 Yrs. Life I. 100 Shovelsful of sand and sawdust.
fig.1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 256 Throwing out lies and scandals by shouell-fuls. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vii. iii. (1865) II. 263 Riddling or screening certain cartloads of heavy old German printed rubbish..we obtain the following shovelful of authentic particulars. |