spade foot

noun

, Furniture.

1. a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.

spade foot

noun

1. a spadelike projection at the end of a chair leg

Word History and Origins

Origin of spade foot¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

I found on investigation that the water was moving with spade-foot toads.

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The water was almost jellied with their spawn, and a little later was swarming with spade-foot tadpoles.

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The one on the left has the Prince's feathers, and all of them show the slender leg which in two of them ends in the spade-foot.

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The legs were generally much more slender than the Chippendale and often ended in what is known as a spade-foot.

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