单词 | pick-and-spade |
释义 | > as lemmaspick-and-spade pick-and-spade adj. ΚΠ 1870 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind xvii, in Good Words May 381/1 Their white hands..are softer than ours, because they don't do any pick-and-spade work. 1967 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 54 363 The need for further pick-and-spade work in selected areas for a clearer picture of the patenting process in public land disposal. 2002 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Nexis) 15 Feb. 1 e Mining will become more than just the pick-and-spade methods between bombing attacks that has dominated the mining operations for the last decade. < as lemmas |
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