spade-man

plural spade-men

1. alternativeAlternative form of spade man.

   They are divided up into small parties consisting of a pick-man, a spade-man, and three or four basket-men.

   1942, Elmer Pendell, Society Under Analysis: An Introduction to Sociology, page 7

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   It is necessary to have another man to put in the grafts; he should put in two, each two inches outside of the mark left as a guide, holding them till the first or spade-man repeats the operation with the spade, which will be about two and a half inches from the edge of the first hole.

   1862, May Read, The Cultivator, page 142

   One man with a gang plow with three 14-inch plows drawn by a 10-20-horse power tractor can plow 7z½ acres in 10 hours, or 120 times as much land as the spade-man.

   1917, I.H.C. Bulletins - Volume 5, page 58