单词 | tommy spade |
释义 | > as lemmastommy spade ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > spade > small spade spittlea1100 spittle-staff12.. spitter1600 spaddle1669 spattle1824 Tommya1825 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tommy, a small spade to excavate the narrow bottoms of under-drains. 1834 Irish Farmer's & Gardener's Mag. July 449 The workman stretches a line to guide him in cutting one side with a tool called a ‘Tommy spade’.—This spade is heart-shaped, and quite flat..; the shaft is about twenty-four inches long. 1859 S. Smiles Story of Life George Stephenson (new ed.) xi. 187 Men and boys were employed to skin the Moss..by means of sharp spades, called by the turf-cutters ‘tommy-spades’. < as lemmas |
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