shoveler
Broad-billed dabbling duck
A shoveler is someone who shovels—clearing snow, moving dirt, or shifting material from one place to another.
The word also names a duck with a broad, flattened bill resembling a shovel, used to filter food from water: Northern shovelers winter in the marshes here.
Also spelled shoveller.
Flat-bladed digging implement
Grassy waterlogged lowland
- pondSmall still body
- lakeEnclosed body of freshwater
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
- potholeCavity in pavement
slough · mudflat · shallows · reeds · cattails · habitat · nesting · breeding
spade
Flat-bladed digging implement
bucket · trowel · ergonomic · steel · wooden · digging · lifting
marsh
Grassy waterlogged lowland
pothole · slough · mudflat · shallows · reeds · cattails · habitat · nesting · breeding · flyway
digger
One who unearths
- laborerPhysical task performer
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- gravediggerOne who digs burial plots
snowplow · coal · trencher · navvy · ditch · clearing · manual · hired · crew · construction
mallard
Common dabbling waterfowl
gadwall · scaup · canvasback · redhead · pochard · goldeneye · merganser · eider · scoter · shelduck
- waterbirdsducks, auk, geese, bittern, swans
- Waterfowlduck, goose, swan, mallard, drake
- bird huntingduck hunting, goose hunting, pheasant hunting, quail hunting, shotguns
- Dabbling Ducksmallard, gadwall, pintail, teal, wigeon
- duck-billed animalsplatypus, duck, mallard, merganser, waterfowl
- Old Bird Nameschaffinch, jackdaw, lapwing, nightjar, osprey
shovelermachine operator
One who runs equipment
snowplow driver · forklift driver · crane operator · dump truck driver
- shoveling snowClearing fallen precipitation manually
- shovel outRemove by digging
- snow shovelTool for moving powder
- steam shovelEngine-driven digging apparatus
- snow shovelingClearing fallen flakes manually
- pick and shovelHand tools for excavation
shovel, shovels, shoveling, shoveled, shovelful, shovelled, shovelling, shoveller, shovellers