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shool.

A shovel.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. A shovel.

    dialectal · obsolete

  2. A spade.

    dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).

verb

  1. To move materials with a shovel.

    The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.

  2. To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling

    figuratively · transitive

  3. To shuffle or shamble.

  4. To go about begging.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).

noun

  1. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”).

    alt-of · dated
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