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shoveling

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1. shoveling - Noun

2. shoveling - Verb

Meaning

of Shovel

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The joys of command - well, you know. You taught them to me. One part glory to ten parts shoveling manure. Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses. Eleanor Mondale

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Shannon Hale

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. Jonathan Tropper

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