English-French translations for shovel

pelle
A la pelle à charbon des mineurs est venu se substituer le microprocesseur. The coalminer's shovel has been replaced by the microprocessor. L'Algérie manque également de matériel lourd pour faire face à ce genre de situation et il semble même que les pioches et les pelles commencent à manquer. There is also a need for adequate heavy equipment to deal with situations like this and even picks and shovels seem to be in short supply. Mais vous savez quoi? Nous reproduisons exactement ce système en distribuant à la pelle ces fonds publics afin de préserver certains intérêts particuliers. But - you know what? - we are recreating exactly that system by shovelling around this public money in order to save some vested interests.
bêche

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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