Translation of "pala" into English

Nalalaing met a civil engineer dagiti mudskipper babaen ti panangusarda iti sigarda kas pala tapno makapagabutda iti kapitakan.

Mudskippers are also accomplished civil engineers, using their fins as shovels to build burrows in the mud.

Pasaray, no agin-inaná ti hardinero, agdisso ti robin iti pala tapno paliiwenna ti aglawlaw.

At times, when the gardener rests, the robin will perch on the spade to survey the scene.