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单词 tommy spade
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tommy spade
6. English regional. More fully tommy spade. A small, flat spade with sharp edges, used esp. in excavating underground drains. Obsolete.
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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’.
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