Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shool
Participle: shooled
Gerund: shooling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shool |
| you | shool |
| he;she;it | shools |
| we | shool |
| you | shool |
| they | shool |
Perfect
| I | have shooled |
| you | have shooled |
| he;she;it | has shooled |
| we | have shooled |
| you | have shooled |
| they | have shooled |
Past
| I | shooled |
| you | shooled |
| he;she;it | shooled |
| we | shooled |
| you | shooled |
| they | shooled |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooled |
| you | had shooled |
| he;she;it | had shooled |
| we | had shooled |
| you | had shooled |
| they | had shooled |
Future
| I | will shool |
| you | will shool |
| he;she;it | will shool |
| we | will shool |
| you | will shool |
| they | will shool |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shooled |
| you | will have shooled |
| he;she;it | will have shooled |
| we | will have shooled |
| you | will have shooled |
| they | will have shooled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shool |
| you | shool |
| he;she;it | shool |
| we | shool |
| you | shool |
| they | shool |
Perfect
| I | have shooled |
| you | have shooled |
| he;she;it | have shooled |
| we | have shooled |
| you | have shooled |
| they | have shooled |
Imperfect
| I | shooled |
| you | shooled |
| he;she;it | shooled |
| we | shooled |
| you | shooled |
| they | shooled |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooled |
| you | had shooled |
| he;she;it | had shooled |
| we | had shooled |
| you | had shooled |
| they | had shooled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shool |
| you | would shool |
| he;she;it | would shool |
| we | would shool |
| you | would shool |
| they | would shool |
Perfect
| I | would have shooled |
| you | would have shooled |
| he;she;it | would have shooled |
| we | would have shooled |
| you | would have shooled |
| they | would have shooled |
Imperative
| you | shool |
| we | Let's shool |
| you | shool |
Verbs conjugated like 'shool'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shool'
school,
shoal,
shoo,
shook,
shoot,
snool,
sool,
spool,
stool,
bool,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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”). See: Icelandic '
skófla'.
Sample Sentences
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The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
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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.'
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Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […] [1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:]