spademan
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spademan (plural spademen)
- Alternative form of spade man
- 1784, Present state of husbandry in Scotland, page 97:
- The earth of this under stratum furrow a number of spademen threw into the old original furrow.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale:
- This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
- 2018, J. Storer Clouston, Vandrad the Viking, page 119:
- All the chiefs and greater men landed with a sufficient number of spademen to assist them with the work, while the others lay off in the ships and watched in silence.