shool

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove +‎ -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”). ==== Noun ==== shool (plural shools) (obsolete or dialectal) A shovel. 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition) (obsolete or dialectal) A spade. ==== Verb ==== shool (third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled) To move materials with a shovel. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.' To shuffle or shamble. To go about begging. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== References ==== Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14 Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel, Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 shool — n a dialect word for shovel, Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14 Definition of SHOOL... 1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle 2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== shool (plural shools) Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”). === Anagrams === Loosh, holos, hools