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Definition of Spadework
1. Noun. Dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking.
Definition of Spadework
1. Noun. Work done by digging with a spade. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spadework
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadework
Literary usage of Spadework
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War Correspondence of the "Daily News," 1877: With a Connecting by Archibald Forbes, Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1878)
"Roughly, they have three lines of spadework, and great indulgence in spadework,
or rather in the shelter of spadework, is apt to detract from the prompt, ..."
2. The War Correspondence of the "Daily News," 1877: With a Connecting by Archibald Forbes, Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1878)
"Roughly, they have three lines of spadework, and great indulgence in spadework,
or rather in the shelter of spadework, is apt to detract from the prompt, ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"He that has four limbs and a French heart can do spadework; and will! On the
first July Monday, scarcely has the signal-cannon boomed; scarcely have the ..."
4. Practical Housing by John Sutton Nettlefold (1908)
"spadework," in its suggestion of persistent industry in rural surroundings, ...
But it is spadework with brains to guide it that makes for success, ..."
5. The Conquest of Turkey: Or, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. 1877 by Linus Pierpont Brockett, Porter Cornelius Bliss (1878)
"... and great indulgence in spadework, or rather in the shelter of spadework, is
apt to detract from ..."
6. A Manual on Lime and Cement: Their Treatment and Use in Construction by Arthur Henry Heath (1893)
"... spadework in the trench; but owing to difficulties of supervision of this
essential precaution, it is better not to allow the practice of tipping, &c. ..."
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