English Explanatory Dictionary

shool

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A shovel.
  2. A spade.
verb
  1. To move materials with a shovel.
  2. To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
  3. To shuffle or shamble.
  4. To go about begging.
noun
  1. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”).

Word forms

shool shools shooling shooled

Etymology

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”).

Derived words

shooler
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