n. An instrument consisting of a broad scoop or concave blade with a handle, used for taking up and removing loose substances, as coal, sand, earth, gravel, corn, coin, etc.n. A shovel-hat.n. In zoology, a formation suggesting a shovel. See cuts under paddle-fish and shoveler.n. See the quotation.To take up and move with a shovel.To move or throw in large quantities, hastily and clumsily, as if with a shovel: as, to shovel food into the mouth with a knife.To cover up with earth by means of a spade or shovel.To use a shovel: as, to shovel for one's living.n. Same as shoveler.An obsolete form of shuffle.n. The blade of any plow or cultivator exclusive of those having shares and mold-boards. Not only shovel-like blades but narrow vertical forms and horizontal scrapers are sometimes included. See scalp, n., 7; scooter, 3; scrape, 7; and entries below.