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spade-graft
Also 3 -graf, 6 -graffe, 7– spade's graft.
[f. spade n.1 + graft n.3]
1. A spade's depth; a spit.
α1252Cart. de Rameseia (Rolls) I. 299 Unam perticam fossati..habentis profunditatem duorum spadegrafs. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §124 Dygge vp the muldes a spade-graffe depe. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. iii. 45 They usually leave one depth of Spade-graft of that Earth. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 115/1 Delfe, or Spadegraft, [is] a digging into the Earth as deep as a spade can go at once. 1765Museum Rust. III. 11 He takes the earth..two spade-grafts deep. 1837Howitt Rur. Life v. iv. (1862) 390 Every spadegraft of your cultivation annihilates the habitats..of animals, insects, and plants. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 214 Half a spade-graft of mould.
β1620[see graft n.3 1]. 1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. 117 The depth may be two Spades graft or more. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 95 Thou must goe half one spades graft deep. 1792[see graft n.3 1]. 1844Proc. Soc. Antiq. I. 30 They were discovered in 1827 near Guisborough, at a depth of about a ‘spade's graft’ beneath the surface.
¶2. The handle of a spade. Obs.
Evelyn is copied or followed by the Dict. Rusticum (1704), Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 27, etc.
1664Evelyn Sylva v. 21 The Beech serves for various Uses of the House-wife;..likewise for the Wheeler,..for the Bellows-maker, and Husbandman his Shovel and Spade⁓graffs. |