Shovel
A shovel — for digging in and moving earth — often touches laborious but pleasant work undertaken, with frustrated hopes if it's broken. The dream may ask where hard, hands-on effort is being asked of you, and whether you can find satisfaction in the honest dig of the work, trusting the tool of your labour to hold up.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shovel, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a shovel in a dream, signifies laborious but withal pleasant work will be undertaken. A broken or old one, implies frustration of hopes.