garden spade
- noun
:
pala de jardín
- He let his garden spade rest against the fence while he took a break from digging.
Examples
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After gathering the tools, I grabbed my garden spade and headed outside to start planting.
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I ran to the garage and got a garden spade.
Fiction book (1999) -
She made a mug of strong black coffee and got her garden spade from the basement.
Fiction book (1993) -
The man in the fedora sold a garden spade for five dollars to a couple wheeling a baby in a stroller.
Fiction book (1994) -
I finally spotted a long-handled garden spade against a trellis and helped her, saying: "I use a rake handle myself, but this is probably better."
Fiction book (1996) -
Billie picked out a heavy garden spade, shiny as chrome, its handle clean pine lacquered to a high sheen.
Fiction book (1991) -
Fiona used her garden spade to dig a hole for the new flowerbed.
Synonyms
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1.0
A tool with a flat blade and long handle for digging
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A tool used to work in a garden, like a spade or rake
How Heavy
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'garden' (an outdoor plot for cultivating plants) with 'spade' (a flat-bladed digging tool); together they denote a spade used for gardening. This noun–noun compounding is a regular, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Garden spade comes from the two words garden and spade. Imagine a flat, rectangular metal blade that you push into the ground to cut and lift soil at the edge of a flower bed. That's why it means 'a spade used for digging and edging soil'.