a. & adv. Useful, or usefully. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. fr. AS. hof house; akin to D. & G. hof court, yard, Icel. hof temple; cf. Prov. E. hove to take shelter, heuf shelter, home. ] 1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoveled r Hovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling. ] To put in a hovel; to shelter. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [ Written also hoveller. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] G. P. R. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [ Written also hovelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shovele, schovele, AS. scoft, sceoft; akin to D. schoffel, G. schaufel, OHG. sc&unr_;vala, Dan. skovl, Sw. skofvel, skyffel, and to E. shove. √160. See Shove, v. t. ] An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shovel hat, a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, -- worn by some clergy of the English Church. [ Colloq. ] --
Shovelspur (Zool.), a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- used in burrowing. --
Steam shovel, a machine with a scoop or scoops, operated by a steam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shoveled r Shovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoveling or Shovelling. ] 1. To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gather up as with a shovel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Shoveler. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The shoveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also shoveller. ] 1. One who, or that which, shovels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (Spatula rhynchotis), is a similar species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Shovelfuls As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The common sand shark. See under Snad. (b) A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil. (c) A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus). (d) A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [ Obs. & R. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]