ditch spade

1. 1.

   a spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches

   Synonymslong-handled spade

   Broaderspade

Questions about ditch spade

What does ditch spade mean?

ditch spade means "a spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches".

What is another word for ditch spade?

Close synonyms include long-handled spade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ditch spade a common word?

ditch spade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.