There's another who devoted most of his time at Cambridge to physical culture, and as the result of it he gets pretty steady employment on the railroad track as a ballast shoveler."
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Beecher has already been explained, and shoveler is formed in the same way from dialect showl, a shovel- " 'I,' said the owl, 'With my spade and showl.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
Stay, that is the shoveler-that fat, brownish black rascal, with the greenish neck and that coquettish iridescence on it.
"The Magic Skin"
Honore de Balzac