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单词 mole-spade
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mole-spade
mole-spade n. Obsolete a spade used for digging out and killing moles.
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1416 in W. Hudson Rec. City of Norwich (1906) I. 320 (MED) [William Coteham with a spade called a] molspade [struck William a mortal blow].
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1596) 291 Then take your mole-spade and cast her vp.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C3v Poore Menaphon neither asked his swaynes for his sheepe, nor tooke his mole-spade on his necke to see his pastures.
1640 J. Shirley Arcadia ii. sig. D2 Sitting beneath an oake that shall be namelesse I chanc'd to turne up some turff with my mole-spade.
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