Spade-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Spade-handed is an adjective meaning Having large, spatulate hands.
Meaning
Having large, spatulate hands.
More Meanings
- Having hands that are used for digging.
Example Sentences
Even the spade-handed moles shall declare their folly.
He was tall, this Swiss priest, lantern-jawed and spade-handed.
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.
Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include two-handed, handed, palmate, swifthanded, many-handed, longimanous.
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