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A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore.Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics and are very strong. Shovel handles are usually made of wood (especially specific varieties such as ash or maple) or glass-reinforced plastic (fiberglass). Hand shovel blades made of sheet steel usually have a folded seam or hem at the back to make a socket for the handle. This fold also commonly provides extra rigidity to the blade. The handles are usually riveted in place. A T-piece is commonly fitted to the end of the handle to aid grip and control where the shovel is designed for moving soil and heavy materials. These designs can all be easily mass-produced. The term shovel also applies to larger excavating machines called power shovels, which serve the same purpose—digging, lifting, and moving material. Although such modern power shovels as front-end loaders and excavators (including tractors that feature a loading bucket on one end and a backhoe for digging and placing material on the other) descend from steam shovels and perform similar work they are not classified as shovels.Hand shovels have been adapted for many different tasks and environments. They can be optimized for a single task or designed as cross-over or compromise multitaskers. They are very useful in agriculture.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shovels in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shovels in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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Tunnelers have worked around the clock, using pickaxes, shovels, buckets and shifts of 2-12 people at a time.
It will take a few days to get the plant up and in condition to start handling feed. The mine can get going as soon as the trucks and shovels are ready but it will take the plant a bit longer to become functional, there are a lot of different units that run to make everything happen up there, it's a very complex work site.
Local volunteers and police personnel are digging through six-feet (deep) snow with shovels looking for more bodies.
The ability to use on-premise media, and in particular digital signage and digital out-of-home media, allows brands and retailers to be reactive and provide contextually relevant content and advertising, think coffee promotions in the morning or marketing hot chocolate or snow shovels ahead of a big snow storm.
At a dinner table everyone slows down; you are actually tasting it, and you probably eat less because you're not shoveling it down, well, the president shovels sometimes.
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