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always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

pecified period. -- Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. -- Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. -- Fire master (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. -- Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance agai…

A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.

Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.] Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. Shak.

A shed or hovel for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [Written also mollebært and mouldebært.] Simmonds.

l; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

The same as Shovelboard.

See Shovelboard.

tting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

The game of shovelboard. [Obs.]

A shovel for sludging out drains, etc.

usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

A shovel used in cleansing ore.

A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.