Another word for shovels

Snow shovels and stuff, too.

Where practicable steam shovels are employed, even when it is necessary to break up the material beforehand by blasting.

Among the city's manufactures are steel, engines, locomotives, radiators, shovels, bricks, flour, furniture and leather.

Supposing the last of these preliminary distillations to have been completed, the residues left in the retorts are removed, and the retorts, as they lie in the hot furnace, are charged by mean: of semi-cylindrical shovels, and their adapters put on.

Steam shovels are not well adapted to deep excavation unless provision is made for the rapid handling of the cars when filled.