Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spade used for cutting and digging turf or peat, longer and narrower than the common spade.
- noun A spade for cutting turf for sodding lawns, etc. See cut d under spade.
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Examples
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Behind her, Lavinia heard the thud of a slean, then ringing as the iron turf-spade found a hidden rock.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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"I have come to borrow your turf-spade," to another; all which is interpreted aright by the brothers, who see what her meaning is.
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He goes into the smithy and comes out again with a turf-spade in his hand.
Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm J��hann Sigurj��nsson 1899
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His only son, a young man of twenty-eight years of age, had received a serious injury in the brain by falling upon a turf-spade from a loft window when a child, and his intellect had remained stationary from that time.
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His only son, a young man of twenty-eight years of age had received a serious injury in the brain by falling upon a turf-spade from a loft window when a child, and his intellect had remained stationary from that time.
Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844
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a serious injury in the brain by falling upon a turf-spade from a loft window when a child, and his intellect had remained stationary from that time.
Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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