spade's

"Wait a minte," he cried, "I'm nearly down to the fire -- oh, oh, I can feel it on my hand -- I b'leeve my spade's aginning to melt."

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp; a spade's a spade, for all that."

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Some of the patches a horse with a plough attached could not turn in, yet they were tilled; there was not a spade's breadth left in any corner.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

A spade's a spade for a 'that an a' that, an a 'that -- an a' that -- an a 'that.

Foul Play Charles Reade 1849

Dig down where you will, through the Parliament-floor or elsewhere, how infallibly do you, at spade's depth below the surface, come upon this universal _Liars_-rock substratum!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Dig down where you will, through the Parliament-floor or elsewhere, how infallibly do you, at spade's depth below the service, come upon this universal _Liars_-rock substratum!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

A rose gold plated bangle from kate spade's 'Women for Women' range.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

A rose gold plated bangle from kate spade's 'Women for Women' range.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Worse, the ground itself is dense clay at best, and hard sandstone at worst - some of which was less than a spade's depth from the grass.

Object Dart Che Tibby 2010

The next thing was digging in to at least a spade's depth, sometimes too, and turning over the clay.

Object Dart Che Tibby 2010