Significats de wooden spade en anglès

A sort of wooden spade was their principal instrument of agriculture.

My digging implements consisted solely of a home-made wooden spade and a stone pick.

He could place his foot in the notch and thrust his wooden spade into the earth.

The little boy was at some distance from his grandfather, digging in the sand with a wooden spade.

Prominently protruding from the pile was the shaft of a wooden spade and the antiquated sole of a shoe.

The door was blocked by snow, and Odd had to take a wooden spade and dig it out before he could enter.

The want of a plough to turn up the earth, or shovel to dig it, I conquered by making me a wooden spade.

Looking up she saw a tiny child wandering along the beach, trailing a wooden spade after her, and sobbing as if her heart would break.

Bribing cemetery watchmen and wielding quiet wooden spades, they worked in the dead of night.

Their taro and their kumara fields had to be dug, and dug thoroughly with wooden spades.

They sometimes make little houses of sand, and build walls around them; and they dig wells with their small wooden spades.

There were little wooden spades for sixpence; but from those he turned with contempt, saying they were only fit for babies.

When they wish to plant it, they set fire to the weeds, and then work it over with their wooden spades.

Perhaps some may be found among the rocks, or if not, we must cut some wooden spades and dig for it.

(I can remember the cake-knife incident perfectly- Ihitthe fallen neighbor with my little wooden spade.

Enormous Irishmen in pilot coats, comforters, and india-rubber boots, armed with broad wooden spades, were struggling to keep the drifts from the pavement.