| 单词 | foot spade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot spade foot spade n. originally Scottish (now somewhat rare) a spade pressed into the ground with the foot. ΚΠ 1489 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 106/2 A fute spaid and a schoil. 1671 Forbes Baron Court Bk. in Publ. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1919) 2nd Ser. 19 285 Who hes castin eather vith foot spad or flachter spad. 1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 286 They fell to labour the Ground with the Foot-spade. 1814 J. Grant Thoughts Origin & Descent Gael 284 The labour must have been performed by men with a kind of foot spade. 1901 New Ireland Rev. Aug. 336 A mere surface of weathered and disintegrated rock,..hardly to be penetrated with the ordinary ‘loy’ or foot spade. 1974 Amer. Ethnol. 1 387 The Campa use for this purpose [sc. turning over soil] a curious implement, a ‘foot-spade’ consisting of a spade-shaped piece of hard palmwood to which a wooden foot-rest was lashed. < as lemmas |
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