coal shovel

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   a hand shovel for shoveling coal

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Questions about coal shovel

What does coal shovel mean?

coal shovel means "a hand shovel for shoveling coal".

Is coal shovel a common word?

coal shovel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.