shoveboardt (shuv bord)

[ With me [a shilling of Edward VI.] the unthrifts every day, With my face downward, do at shove - board play. John Taylor , Travels of Twelve-pence. ( Nares .) shove-groatt (shuv'grot), n. [ shove + obj. groat .] Same as shovel - board , 1 and 2. Pist. Thrust him down stairs! know we not Galloway nags? Fal . Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove - groat shilling. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 206. Made it run as smooth off the tongue as a shove -groat shilling. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. shove-halfpennyt (shuv'ha "pe-ni), n. Same as shovel - board , 1 and 2. I remarked, however, a number of parallel lines, such as are used for playing shove halfpenny , on a deal table in the tap-room frequented by them. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 198. shovell (shuv'l), n. [ schoule , shole (> E. dial. shoul , shool ), scoft , scofle , in oldest form scobl (= D. schoffel = Sw. skofvel = Dan.skovl ; cf. (with long vowel) MLG. schūfele , schūfle , schuffele , LG. schüfel , schuffel = OHG. scūval a , MHG. schū fele , schufel , G. schaufel ), a shovel, scufan (pp. scofen ), shove: see shove .] 1. 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. The most common form of shovel is that used for removing loose earth, coal, or the like; it is made of thin iron, the blade square and flat, with low sides nearly at right angles with it, and a wooden handle somewhat curved, about two feet six inches in length, and terminating in a bow-handle. See fire -shovel. Tho nome hi spade and schole and ner the place wende Depe hi gonne to delue. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 42. To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 110. 2. A shovel-hat. [Colloq.] shovel. A queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 2. 3. In zoöl ., a formation suggesting a shovel. See cuts under paddle - fish and shoveler2 .-4. See the quotation. [Slang.] In the early days after the Crime an War, the engineers in the Navy were a rough lot. They were good men, but without much education. They were technically known as shovels. The Engineer , LXVIL. 344. Mouth of a shovel. See mouth. -Pronged shovel, a shovel made with prongs instead of an undivided blade: used for moving broken stone, etc. shovell (shuv'l), v.; pret. and pp. shoveled or shovelled, ppr. shoveling or shovelling. [ In winter, to shovel away the snow from the side-walk. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iv. 2. 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 shovel up. (a) To throw up with a shovel. (b) To cover up with earth by means of a spade or shovel. Oh! who would fight and march and countermarch, Be shot for sixpence in a battle-field, And shovell'd up into a bloody trench Where no one knows? Tennyson, Audley Court. II. in trans. To use a shovel: as, to shovel for one's living.