English-Finnish translations for shovel

lapioSillä aikaa maanjäristysalueella ei juuri näkynyt sotilaita lapio kädessä. Meanwhile the sight of a soldier in the earthquake area with a shovel in his hand is a rare one. Suomalaisen lapion varren päässä on yleensä ponsi.
lapioidaEn tiedä, mistä neuvonne ovat peräisin, mutta tilastollisesti sää ei ole todellisuudessa muuttunut noin 15-16 vuoteen, joten mihin aiotte kaiken tämän rahan lapioida? I do not know where you get your advice from, but statistically, the weather has not actually changed for about 15 or 16 years, so what are you going to shovel all this money into?

A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots
To move materials with a shovel
To move with a shoveling motion

The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
I dont mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.

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