Schaufel — meaning in English

English meaning

• bucket noun A round, open container with a handle, used to carry liquids or loose items.
• paddle noun A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used to propel and steer a small boat.
• scoop noun A cup-shaped tool, or the utensil's bowl-shaped end, used for lifting and serving loose material like ice cream or flour.
• shovel verb To move earth, snow, or other loose material using a shovel.
• vane noun A device mounted on a roof or pole that turns to show which way the wind is blowing.

Senses

Schaufel is used for these senses in English:

• bucket Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
• paddle A blade of a waterwheel.
• scoop The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
• shovel 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.
• vane Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

bucket — full definition

1. noun A round, open container with a handle, used to carry liquids or loose items.
2. noun The amount that such a container holds, or informally, a large quantity of something.
3. verb To rain very heavily.

paddle — full definition

1. noun A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used to propel and steer a small boat.
2. verb To move a small boat through water using a paddle.
3. verb To wade or splash about playfully in shallow water.

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