Spades - a Collection of Various Types
“A tool for digging and cutting the ground, having a rather thick iron blade, usually flat, so formed that its terminal edge (either straight or curved) may be pressed into the ground or other resisting substance with one foot, and a handle, usually with a crosspiece at the top, to be grasped by both hands... a, Irish spade with foot-piece; b, Greek spade with foot-piece; c, Japanese spade; d, spade for cutting turf; e, ditching spades; f, post-spade for digging post-holes; g, polished drain-spade with foot-piece; h, long-handled garden spade; i, ditching-spade.” —Whitney, 1889
Keywords
cutting, cut, handle, Spade, Digging, Dig, Greek spade, Irish spade, Japanese spade, cross piece, cutting turf, digging tool, ditch digging, ditching, drain spade, foot piece, long-handledSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5791
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