Meanings (ES + gloss)
pala
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. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
It was said that such train crews kept a spare shovel on board because, on numerous occasions, the beginner had not only zealously thrown coal into the firebox but had let the shov…
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
palear • traspalar
To move materials with a shovel.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
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