What does spade-handed mean?
Spade-handed means Having large, spatulate hands..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having large, spatulate hands..
Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
I can honestly say that so far-minus the spade-handed doctor perhaps — I had enjoyed every second and for me that was a big deal.
He was tall, this Swiss priest, lantern-jawed and spade-handed.
Even the spade-handed moles shall declare their folly.
They in their turn sought useful wives, the broad-hipped, spade-handed type of wives who might build houses and bear children in the same afternoon and still have supper on the table when they got home.
Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb From maid and head,
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Spade-handed means Having large, spatulate hands..
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Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
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