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spadeless

spadeless adjective: without a spade.

Adjective

spadeless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spade.
    • He of the spare spade, would not lend it to the man who had none, because he had a large garden which he wanted the spadeless man to help to dig […]1839, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin review

Origin of spadeless

From spade + -less.

Questions about spadeless

What does spadeless mean?
Spadeless means without a spade.
What part of speech is spadeless?
Spadeless is an adjective.

Words near spadeless in the dictionary

  1. spadefoot toad
  2. spadefoot toads
  3. spadefoots
  4. spadeful
  5. spadefuls
  6. spadeless
  7. spadelike
  8. spadellid
  9. spadeload
  10. spadeloads
  11. spademan

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