“spadeful”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

spadeful

释义

spadeful|ˈspeɪdfʊl|
Also -full.
[f. spade n.¹ + -ful.]
A quantity that fills a spade; as much as a spade can hold or take up at one time.
1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xxx. 27 His mouth shall be filled with a spade-ful of mould.1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5865/2 His Excellency was to raise the first Spadeful of Earth at the opening of the Dyke.1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 311 Five or six spadefuls of snow.1826W. A. Miles Deverel Barrow 18 Every spadeful of earth presented a mixture of pottery, charcoal, and flints.1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 161 When we had dug out one or two spadefuls of soil.
fig.1886Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 13 It is painful, yet very pleasant to dig into the past of a dead friend, and find him, at every spadeful, shine brighter.

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