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shool ‎(plural shools)

A shovel
- 1611 And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
- 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
A spade
- 2010 "shool spade see shovel" (A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)

shool ‎(third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled)

To move materials with a shovel.
The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
(transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
- 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
To shuffle or shamble
- 1988 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-169-4, (page 652), "scuffle vb...2 syn shuffle 3, scuffle, shamble, ||shool, shovel"; (page 669) "shambles vb syn shuffle 3, scuffle, shamble, ||shool, shovel"; (page 670) "shuffle vb syn scuff, scuffle, shamble, || shool, shovel"

Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14
Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel
TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14
shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel,
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shool — n a dialect word for shovel,
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Definition of SHOOL...

1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle

2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter

From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl ‎(“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō ‎(“shovel”), equivalent to shove +‎ -el ‎(instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil ‎(“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel ‎(“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel ‎(“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel ‎(“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel ‎(“shovel”), German Schaufel ‎(“shovel”), Danish skovl ‎(“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel ‎(“shovel”), Icelandic skófla ‎(“shovel”).