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spade foot
noun
, Furniture.
- a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
spade foot
noun
- a spadelike projection at the end of a chair leg
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spade foot1
First recorded in 1890–95
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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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