shoveler

• shoveller

• (one who, or that which, shovels): From shovel +‎ -er; compare Middle English schoveler (“a person who works with a shovel”).
• (duck): From Middle English shoulere, shovellewre, shovelere, schoueler, alteration of earlier schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard (“shovelard”), from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”),[1] on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar and later itself replaced by Middle English -er, but not completely certain.[2] Probably at least influenced by the shape of the bill and its feeding behavior.

shoveler (plural shovelers)

1. One who, or that which, shovels.
   • 1910, Halbert Powers Gillette, Handbook of cost data for contractors and engineers:

     The sand was loaded by 3 shovelers into wheelbarrows holding 3.6 cu. ft. each...

2. Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.

• hovelers, reshovel