Example Sentences

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Because of the public courses I played in Texas, I learned to be a "shover" and a fader.

From Golf Digest • May 15, 2012

The room took more findin'; but there's an old pal o' mine a shover in the mews.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William

Hooiver, I goes up to her shover an’ sez: ‘Pardonnay moy, but ain’t that Mees Angèle Saumarez?’

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis

The shover had got a gang of men and they'd got the gas-cart ashore, and Billings and a blacksmith was workin' over—or rather under—the clockwork.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt

Life is a very up-and-downy thing, and it is good to know, should it get down, that you can give it a lift up yourself and not have to wait for a shover.

From Kitty Canary by Bosher, Kate Langley