"spade-man" meaning in English

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      "form": "spade-men",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "spade man"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, May Read, The Cultivator, page 142",
          "text": "It is necessary to have another man to put in the grafts; he should put in two, each two inches outside of the mark left as a guide, holding them till the first or spade-man repeats the operation with the spade, which will be about two and a half inches from the edge of the first hole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, I.H.C. Bulletins - Volume 5, page 58",
          "text": "One man with a gang plow with three 14-inch plows drawn by a 10-20-horse power tractor can plow 7z½ acres in 10 hours, or 120 times as much land as the spade-man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Elmer Pendell, Society Under Analysis: An Introduction to Sociology, page 7",
          "text": "They are divided up into small parties consisting of a pick-man, a spade-man, and three or four basket-men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of spade man"
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  "word": "spade-man"
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    {
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "spade man"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, May Read, The Cultivator, page 142",
          "text": "It is necessary to have another man to put in the grafts; he should put in two, each two inches outside of the mark left as a guide, holding them till the first or spade-man repeats the operation with the spade, which will be about two and a half inches from the edge of the first hole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, I.H.C. Bulletins - Volume 5, page 58",
          "text": "One man with a gang plow with three 14-inch plows drawn by a 10-20-horse power tractor can plow 7z½ acres in 10 hours, or 120 times as much land as the spade-man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Elmer Pendell, Society Under Analysis: An Introduction to Sociology, page 7",
          "text": "They are divided up into small parties consisting of a pick-man, a spade-man, and three or four basket-men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of spade man"
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          "spade man#English"
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  "word": "spade-man"
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