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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, page 93",
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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": "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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