Word |
Spade |
Meaning |
a garden shovel |
Example 1 |
Digging into the dirt with the spade, the gardener made neat rows to hold his petunias. |
Example 2 |
The police realized that the suspect was the killer when they found a receipt for the spade he bought at the hardware store. |
Example 3 |
The early spade was made of animal bone and was used to dig ditches for irrigation. |
Example 4 |
Equipped with a spade and some bulbs, the planter used the scoop to tillage into the earth. |
Example 5 |
In ancient China, the blade of a spade was used not for digging but for currency. |
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