Verb
(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.
- (figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
- To shuffle or shamble
Origin
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”).
