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northern shoveler

Variant of shoveler

or shoveller

noun

  1. a person or thing that shovels
  2. a freshwater duck (Anas clypeata) with a very long, broad, flattened bill, living in the Northern Hemisphere mainly in marshes
    also called northern shoveler
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