long-handled spade

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   a spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches

   Synonymsditch spade

   Broaderspade

Questions about long-handled spade

What does long-handled spade mean?

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

What is another word for long-handled spade?

Close synonyms include ditch 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 long-handled spade a common word?

long-handled 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.