spademan

English

Etymology

spade +‎ -man

Noun

spademan (plural spademen)

  1. Alternative form of spade man
    • 1784, Present state of husbandry in Scotland, page 97:
      The earth of this under stratum furrow a number of spademen threw into the old original furrow.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale:
      This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
    • 2018, J. Storer Clouston, Vandrad the Viking, page 119:
      All the chiefs and greater men landed with a sufficient number of spademen to assist them with the work, while the others lay off in the ships and watched in silence.
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