Re: spade and shovel (was [romconlang] -able)

Jeff Jones:
<<
Interesting -- I've known the spade only as a small digging tool with
just
enough handle for one hand and a narrow almost pointed blade. You
have to
sit or kneel to use it. Anything else is a shovel, including the
small plastic toy
used by small children at the beach. And, to save a post somewhere
along,
the thing they put the sand into can be either a bucket or a pail.
"Bucket"
seems to be the more general word, with "pail" never used for
anything heavy-
duty.
 >>

I have that definition of spade too!  I was looking for examples,
though, but only found the large spades...  Is this idea of the
small, gardening spade, simply a misnomer...?

-David
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