Word.ws English Dictionary

spade man

spade man noun: a man who works with a spade.

Noun

spade man (plural spade men)

  1. A man who works with a spade.
    • Keep up cultivation and hoeing until it freezes and then give them a good coat of mulch, then trust to God for the balance, and He will, I assure you, reward your efforts with berries that will capture and hold any market you desire to put them in at from one-half to one-third more per quart than...1907, Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, page 429
    • After the ejected case has cleared the loading tray, the spade man depresses the spade release lever to drop the spade.1944, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Training Division, Naval Ordnance and Gunnery, page 136

Forms of spade man

pluralspade men
alternative formspade-man
alternative formspademan

Words that rhyme with spade man

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about spade man

What does spade man mean?
Spade man means a man who works with a spade.
What part of speech is spade man?
Spade man is a noun.
What is the plural of spade man?
The plural of spade man is spade men.

Words near spade man in the dictionary

  1. spade feet
  2. spade foot
  3. spade foots
  4. spade fork
  5. spade forks
  6. spade man
  7. spade mashie
  8. spade mashies
  9. spade men
  10. spade money
  11. spade moneys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spade man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spade man.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spade_man. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.