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单词 spademan
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spademann.

/ˈspeɪdmən/
Forms: Also spadesman.
Etymology: spade n.1
One who uses a spade; a labourer accustomed to work with a spade.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with spade or shovel
shovellerc1440
shovel-man1559
spademan1559
spader1647
shooler1830
shovel1834
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1559 Ld. Cobham in Boys Sandwich (1792) 738 Over every x spade men muste be one clercke.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A spade-man or spader, een spader, spitter ofte delver.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 49 It is necessary also to employ spade-men..to clear out the small drains.
1854 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress iii. 59 The spademan who digs the canal.
1864 Realm 17 Feb. 7 From his bowels the armed spademen keep issuing evermore.
β. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 248 We are wretched spadesmen enough.1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 224 The spadesman..is a useful servant on a farm.1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Dec. 3 In Sardinia they can obtain no spadesmen, the Sards having a distaste for performing the continuous work of navvies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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