Most other mills required workers to hand shovel materials between operations.

A small hand shovel was on a worktable near the stove.

Hand shovels have been adapted for many different tasks and environments.

Call dug the grave with a little hand shovel.

"A quarter million Muscovites are digging them with hand shovels.

The troops dug many of the fortifications and trenches with hand shovels.

Suddenly, the prisoners were handed shovels and forced to dig a mass grave for their own burial after execution.

Enkidu and I were handed shovels and brooms and told to get to work.

After the local utilities bureau approves a site, they work 16 hours a day with hand shovels sinking shafts and digging tunnels.

Hand shovel blades made of sheet steel usually have a folded seam or hem at the back to make a socket for the handle.

Prince handed Shovel and Tolkoff the music to take with them to world premiere on Indie 103.1.

Moments later, as the workers were handed shovels and led down a ramp into the basement of a building, Mr. Estrada's suspicions grew.

In antiquity, an equivalent of the hand shovel or hoe and head basket-and masses of men-were used to move earth to build civil works.

Contractors use hand shovels, walk behind snowblowers (or snow throwers), truck plows, skid-steers, light-weight tractors, and heavy front-end loaders.

But the conviviality did not last once they arrived at the industrial park, where Mr. Perez and Mr. Estrada were handed shovels.

Relying on geologists' calculations, and using only hand shovels and some explosives, they dug a 5-by-8-foot shaft through nearly 140 feet of ice and boulders in a month.

"Until almost the twentieth century, one simple tool constituted the primary earthmoving machine: the hand shovel - moved with animal and human powered, sleds, barges, and wagons.

By then, a city water system was in place, and South Creek, dug out by men with hand shovels, had been straightened to improve the drainage on south side of town.

The tour begins in the spiritual glory of the sanctuary and continues into the subcellar, dug 15 to 20 feet below the original basement with hand shovels to protect the fragile structure.

Presently he gave up on his little hand shovel, exchanging it for a power tool that cut, scraped, hammered, pushed, or dragged, depending on the quality of resistance that its workface met.

When mining commenced in 1931, the mine was mechanized to an extent not previously seen in Australia, with mechanized drilling and mechanical shovels rather than "hammer and tap" hand drilling and hand shovels.

Sumitral smiled and permitted Third to limit all heavy machinery, all automated equipment - except medical supplies of any kind - because Third forgot that hand shovels and incentive were used long before mining machines and printed circuits.

He was still wearing his dirt-streaked denims; but what at that moment struck Biggles as even more odd was the small hand shovel he held in one hand and a light haversack, that appeared to be empty, slung from a shoulder.

The effort now involves everything from hand shovels and acetylene torches to hundreds of monstrous machines, including some of the strongest and most precise demolition equipment available in the world, that can lift heavy blocks of concrete or delicately rake through rubble that might contain human remains.