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

In a message dated 4/15/2008 21:04:55 PM Central Daylight Time,
rfmilly@MSN.COM writes:


> >Sounds a little like a trenching shovel. Although trenching shovels
> >usually have a narrow blade with a sort of V shape to it.
>
> Quite short handle, too. Back in olden times, it's what GIs used to dig
> their foxholes (the handle folded, too, for easier carrying)
> >
>
They fold up even more now: handgrip and blade fold over the handle, and it's
carried on a belt or outside of a back pack (some of which are called ALICE
packs; I forgot the expansion of the acronym.)

>> I usually use spade to refer to the small hand shovel used for
> >planting small plants like bulbs and plants in quart pots.
>
> Trowel, trowel, trowel ;-))))
>
To me a trowel is only used for smoothing something, such as mortar.

stevo
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