"spade foot" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, United States Dept. of the Interior, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program:",
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          "ref": "1929 June, Charles A. King, “Constructing a Piano Bench”, in Popular Science, volume 114, number 6, page 79:",
          "text": "The spade foot leg may be used as an alternate design.",
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          "ref": "2004, Philip D. Zimmerman, Charles Thomas Butler, Catherine E. Hutchins, American Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Watson Collection, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "Also, the glazing pattern of the bookcase traces simple diamonds rather than more elaborate arches or other curved elements, and the tapered legs end without a spade foot or an additional taper at the cuff.",
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          "ref": "2011, George Grotz, The Furniture Doctor, →ISBN:",
          "text": "First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass.",
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        "A block-shaped foot higher than wide and tapering slightly toward the bottom. The spade foot usually terminates a tapering leg, and the top of the foot is wider than the leg."
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        "(furniture) A block-shaped foot higher than wide and tapering slightly toward the bottom. The spade foot usually terminates a tapering leg, and the top of the foot is wider than the leg."
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          "ref": "1896, Chambers's Journal, page 10:",
          "text": "Nevertheless, one foot is generally used in preference to the other in such movements as digging (hence sometimes called the spade foot), in hopping, in making a leap, &c.",
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          "ref": "1927, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, The American Journal of Psychology - Volume 38, page 336:",
          "text": "Rife says as regards the spade foot, \"the fact is always overlooked that the foot used in spading is determined entirely by the bimanual dextrality\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Daniel Wilson, The Right Hand: Left-Handedness, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "I believe every boy will hop on his spade foot. at least I do so, and I am not left-handed; and I instinctively do so because I dig with this foot.",
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        "The foot that is habitually used to put pressure on a spade when digging."
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