cook's shovel

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a long-handled shovel used to bury bake kettles in hot sand in a camboose (def. 2).

Quotations

1961

The "cook's shovel" used to bury the kettles was round-pointed with a short socket into which the cook fitted a long straight handle.