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Definition of Garden spade
1. Noun. A spade used by gardeners.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Spade
Literary usage of Garden spade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... already described, and they maintained that it Tour to was better than the
usual garden-spade, and that there was an art in tossing it, by which those ..."
2. The Forester =: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and by James Brown (1882)
"So far as our experience has enabled us to judge, there is, for the purpose of
notching, no implement so useful as a half-worn common garden-spade; ..."
3. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1851)
"They are of the same form as a common garden-spade, but smaller in the blade,
and having the shears, or that iron part which clasps the wooden handle, ..."
4. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"For notching, a half-worn garden-spade with a blade 8 to 9 inches long is better
than a new spade, as one can work much more rapidly with it. ..."
5. The Fruit Garden: A Treatise Intended to Explain and Illustrate the by Patrick Barry (1857)
"The trench should be the width of a common garden spade, and deep enough to admit
of an inspection of all the roots of the tree. If the lateral roots are to ..."
6. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1853)
"... or weed, But what has its position—not a trace Of any cleaning up that has
been made By any rake, or hoe, or garden spade. XI Yet, notwithstanding this, ..."
7. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... already described, and they maintained that it Tour to was better than the
usual garden-spade, and that there was an art in tossing it, by which those ..."
8. The Forester =: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and by James Brown (1882)
"So far as our experience has enabled us to judge, there is, for the purpose of
notching, no implement so useful as a half-worn common garden-spade; ..."
9. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1851)
"They are of the same form as a common garden-spade, but smaller in the blade,
and having the shears, or that iron part which clasps the wooden handle, ..."
10. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"For notching, a half-worn garden-spade with a blade 8 to 9 inches long is better
than a new spade, as one can work much more rapidly with it. ..."
11. The Fruit Garden: A Treatise Intended to Explain and Illustrate the by Patrick Barry (1857)
"The trench should be the width of a common garden spade, and deep enough to admit
of an inspection of all the roots of the tree. If the lateral roots are to ..."
12. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1853)
"... or weed, But what has its position—not a trace Of any cleaning up that has
been made By any rake, or hoe, or garden spade. XI Yet, notwithstanding this, ..."
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