ˈfire-shovel
[OE. f{yacu}r-scofl, f. f{yacu}r, fire + scofl, shovel.]
A shovel for placing coals on a fire or for removing coal or ashes.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 358 Batilla, fyrscofl. 1543 in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 572/1 Fireshovel 1/8. 1567 Inv. E. Hutton in Wills & Inv. (Surtees) 250 A paire of tonges, a porr & a fyer shule. 1612 Sc. Bk. Customs in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 304 Fire shooles the dozen. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (1883) 227, I took a Fire Shovel and Tongs. 1838 Dickens O. Twist ix, The Jew, tapping the fire-shovel on the hearth. |