Meaning of spade-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having large, spatulate hands.
2. Having hands that are used for digging.

Examples

“Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.”

“I can honestly say⟳ that so far-minus the spade-handed doctor perhaps — I had enjoyed every second and for me that was a big deal⟳.”

“He was tall, this Swiss priest, lantern-jawed and spade-handed.”

“Even the spade-handed moles shall declare⟳ their folly.”

“They in their turn⟳ sought useful wives, the broad-hipped, spade-handed type⟳ of wives who might build⟳ houses and bear⟳ children in the same afternoon and still have⟳ supper on the table when they got home.”

“Deliver⟳ me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive⟳ children up like⟳ bruises to the thumb From maid and head,”

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