shool

Meanings

Noun

• A shovel.
• A spade.

Verb

• To move materials with a shovel.
• To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
• To shuffle or shamble.
• To go about begging.

Origin

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