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spademan|ˈspeɪdmən|
Also spadesman.
[spade n.1]
One who uses a spade; a labourer accustomed to work with a spade.
α1559Ld. Cobham in Boys Sandwich (1792) 738 Over every x spade men muste be one clercke. 1647Hexham i, A spade-man or spader, een spader, spitter ofte delver. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 49 It is necessary also to employ spade-men..to clear out the small drains. 1854W. R. Williams Relig. Progr. iii. 59 The spademan who digs the canal. 1864Realm 17 Feb. 7 From his bowels the armed spademen keep issuing evermore.
β1826Scott Woodst. xxxiii, We are wretched spadesmen enough. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 224 The spadesman..is a useful servant on a farm. 1865Pall Mall G. 15 Dec. 3 In Sardinia they can obtain no spadesmen, the Sards having a distaste for performing the continuous work of navvies. |