Definitions for shoveler

shoveler shov·el·er

Spelling: [shuhv-uh-ler, shuhv-ler]
IPA: /ˈʃʌv ə lər, ˈʃʌv lər/

Shoveler is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in shoveler (eehlorsv).

Definitions for shoveler

noun

  1. a person or thing that shovels.
  2. Ornithology. a freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere, Anas clypeata, having a broad, flat bill. any of several related, similar ducks.

Origin of shoveler

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at shovel, -er1

Examples for shoveler

shoveler are so numerous that we have known over eighty bagged by one gun in a day.

It takes its name from its peculiar bill, and may be termed the shoveler of Australia.

Stay, that is the shoveler—that fat, brownish black rascal, with the greenish neck and that coquettish iridescence on it.

I have hesitated a long while between the whistling duck, the duck with white eyebrows, and the shoveler duck (anas clypeata).

The shoveler is also present, if in much smaller numbers, and hides its very similar nest in much the same sort of places.

Word Value for shoveler
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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