spadeful / ˈspeɪd fʊl /

📖毕业后词汇铲子铲子式铲球铲子状

spadeful 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural spade·fuls.

  1. the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.

更多spadeful例句

  1. After dinner we dug a small hole in the floor of the outer tent, in which we placed a spadeful of red-hot embers from the fire.
  2. There would be no getting used to it, every moment, every hour, that passed would but put another spadeful of earth on his coffin.
  3. Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more.
  4. "I can see roses in that, miss," said the gardener, turning up a deep spadeful for her inspection.
  5. I cant budge a spadeful of this hard ground, Betty, complained Ruth, as her companion joined her.