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(idiomatic, archaic) A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
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(England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
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(dated, Britain, slang) A large, flat foot.
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The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
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(rare) One who digs up bones; an archaeologist or graverobber.
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(informal, Australia) A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed.
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The pitcher in certain orchids.
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(mining) A miner's hammer.
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Alternative form of busheling [(chiefly in the plural) Scraps of steel left over from manufacturing processes.]
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(slang, archaic) Alternative form of caulker (“alcoholic drink”) [A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.]
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Synonym of chimney sweep
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The scooped out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised.
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(motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
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A rake for digging up clams.
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(obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.
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An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
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One who digs or delves, as with a spade.
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A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.
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A dibble (device for making holes in which to plant seeds).
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(Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
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(slang) To preside over the ceremonies surrounding birth and naming, marriage, and funerals or memorial services.
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(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
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(pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
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(pottery) Operator of a jigger.
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(pottery) A concave horizontal lathe used in producing bowls and cups.
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(slang) A prank or act of revenge in which a motor vehicle is used to produce unsightly tire tracks on a person's lawn.
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A large, heavy bladed knife for cutting raw meat.
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A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
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(transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
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(obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
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A tool in the form of a short, metal bar, sometimes incorporating a spanner at one end.
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(obsolete) Synonym of rakehell
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A person who uses a rake.
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(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
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Synonym of scuffle (“type of hoe”)
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(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
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One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
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To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.
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A spade for digging peat.
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(obsolete) A little spade.
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A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
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A man who works with a spade.
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Having hands that are used for digging.
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Work done by digging with a spade.
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Alternative spelling of spadea [A page that is folded vertically around a section of a newspaper, covering part of the front and back pages, usually carrying advertising.]
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Obsolete form of spade (digging tool) [A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.]
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(transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.
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Obsolete form of spade. [A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.]
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Alternative spelling of spurtle [Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.]
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The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
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(transitive) To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
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A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
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One who digs up weeds with a spud.
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Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.
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Alternative form of stook (“pile of straw etc.”) [A pile or bundle, especially of straw.]
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A stick for stirring food.
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A specialized claw or nail on the foot of certain primates, used for personal grooming.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turf, cutter.; that which cuts turf
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(UK, especially Scotland, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of spade similar to a cascrom.
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To trim with a weedwhacker.
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A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
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A thunderbolt drawn as a straight-edged runic s with a horizontal bar in the middle and the ends angled at 90 degrees centerwise, especially a Nazi one.
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