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Shovel : You clear snow away if it gets in front of your door. The thing you use is a shovel.
Walter’s shovel was metal, and looked like this. Snow sticks to metal shovels. That makes the work
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Winter in the
shipyard Ships are built in shipyards. When I started working in the shipyard it was a cold winter. We never used to have any heat and many times I would have to shovel the snow out from under me. All the work was outdoors, and where I was working got covered in snow. It snowed a lot, sometimes three or four feet. If snow got on the plates I had to shovel it out, and blow it out with an air hose before I could start working. That is the way I worked all winter. 103 Words
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