shoveler
/shuhv-uh-ler, shuhv-ler/US // ˈʃʌv ə lər, ˈʃʌv lər //UK // (ˈʃʌvələ) //
铲屎官,铲运工,铲子,铲子手
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person or thing that shovels.
- : Ornithology. a freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere, Anas clypeata, having a broad, flat bill.any of several related, similar ducks.
Examples
Stay, that is the shoveler—that fat, brownish black rascal, with the greenish neck and that coquettish iridescence on it.
I have hesitated a long while between the whistling duck, the duck with white eyebrows, and the shoveler duck (anas clypeata).
The Shoveler is also present, if in much smaller numbers, and hides its very similar nest in much the same sort of places.
She has about as much tact as a rhinoceros, and possesses the æsthetic perceptions of a coal shoveler.
It takes its name from its peculiar bill, and may be termed the Shoveler of Australia.
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