Shovel
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Shovel. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR CLOUDESLEY, an English naval officer; born probably in Clay, a Norfolk fishing village, about 1650. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but he ran away to sea, and soon rose by his remarkable ability and courage through the grades of cabin boy and seaman to the quarter deck. He served as lieutenant under Sir John Narborough N in the Mediterranean (1674), burned four pirate ships under the walls of Tripoli commanded a ship at the battle in Ban try Bay (1689), and was soon after knighted for his conduct. In 1690 he rose to be rear-admiral of the blue, and took an active part in the battle off Beachy Head; two years later, as rear-admiral of the red, he supported Admiral Russell heroically at La Hogue, and himself burned 20 of the enemy's ships. He was sent to Vigo in 1702 to bring home the spoils of Rooke, next served under him in the Mediterranean, and led his van at Malaga. In January, 1705, he was made rear-admiral of England. That year he took part with Peterborough in the capna, but failed in his at- , ture of Barcelona tack on Toulon in 1707. On the voyage home his ship, the "Association," struck a rock off the Scilly Isles on the foggy night of Oct. 22, 1707, and went down with 800 men on board. Four vessels of his squadron perished with as many as 2,000. Sir Cloudesley Shovel's body was washed up next day and buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
An instrument consisting of a flat or scooped blade and a handle; it is used for digging and throwing sand, earth, etc. Moulders' shovels are of two kinds--heavy and light, the former for digging, the latter being specially made to meet the requirements of stove-plate, bench, and other light-work moulding; but both classes of shovels should be made of the best cast steel, and well polished. The handsomer and better the tool, the greater will be the care exercised to preserve it, so that in the end the best is the cheapest. Besides this fine grade for moulders, there are plain black polished ones of a stronger make, adapted for rough use on the gangway and scrap-piles, which answer these purposes just as well as the best, and are much cheaper. Special shovels and scoops are made for coal; but for coke handling, especially round the cupola, the fork is to be always preferred. The square-bladed digging-tool is usually termed a spade. See COKE-FORK.