Definitions for shovelers

shovelers shov·el·er

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

Shovelers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in shovelers (eehlorssv).

Definitions for shovelers

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

Origin of shovelers

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

Examples for shovelers

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.

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

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

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

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

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 shovelers
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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