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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A spade lay half-buried in mud.
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And it's no use calling a spade an effing shovel, when saying spade would have been far more effective.
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Beyond the stables the monotonous sound of Varro's spade went on and on.
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I thought the going would be easy after penetrating the surface layers of soil and roots with spade and ax.
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The three spades needed when ferreting: the Norfolk long spade, the graft, and the filling-in spade.
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The woman stuck her spade in the ground.