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spade feet

spade feet is the plural of spade foot.

Meaning of spade foot

Noun

spade foot (plural spade foots or spade feet)

  1. A block-shaped foot higher than wide and tapering slightly toward the bottom. The spade foot usually terminates a tapering leg, and the top of the foot is wider than the leg.
    • The spade foot leg may be used as an alternate design.1929 June, Charles A. King, “Constructing a Piano Bench”, in Popular Science, volume 114, number 6, page 79
  2. The foot that is habitually used to put pressure on a spade when digging.
    • Nevertheless, one foot is generally used in preference to the other in such movements as digging (hence sometimes called the spade foot), in hopping, in making a leap, &c.1896, Chambers's Journal, page 10

Questions about spade feet

What is spade feet the plural of?
Spade feet is the plural of spade foot.

Words near spade feet in the dictionary

  1. spadassinicides
  2. spadassins
  3. spaddle
  4. spaddles
  5. spade
  6. spade feet
  7. spade foot
  8. spade foots
  9. spade fork
  10. spade forks
  11. spade man

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