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spade-worker

spade-worker is the alternative form of spadeworker.

Meaning of spadeworker

Noun

spadeworker (plural spadeworkers)

  1. One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.
    • Like master like man. The peasants and artisans follow their neighbors; the spade-workers voting with Bismarck and Falkenstein, the hand-workers with Jacoby and Rosenkranz.1868, William Hepworth Dixon, chapter 4, in Spiritual Wives, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 37

Forms of spade-worker

pluralspade-workers

Questions about spade-worker

What is spade-worker the alternative form of?
Spade-worker is the alternative form of spadeworker.

Words near spade-worker in the dictionary

  1. spade-handed
  2. spade-man
  3. spade-men
  4. spade-toothed whale
  5. spade-toothed whales
  6. spade-worker
  7. spade-workers
  8. spadea
  9. spadeable
  10. spadeas
  11. spadebill

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