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has spaded

  • present perfect
    of spade (3rd person singular).
    spade
    noun
    a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.

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In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads to own.

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