Definition of Garden spade

1. Noun. A spade used by gardeners.

Generic synonyms: Spade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Spade

garden path sentence
garden path sentences
garden paths
garden pea
garden pea plant
garden pepper cress
garden pink
garden plant
garden rake
garden rhubarb
garden rocket
garden roller
garden shears
garden snail
garden sorrel
garden spade (current term)
garden spider
garden strawberry
garden symphilid
garden tool
garden trowel
garden truck
garden variety
garden violet
garden webworm
gardened
gardener
gardener's delight
gardener's garters
gardeners

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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