spade-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having large, spatulate hands.

   • Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
   • I can honestly say that so far-minus the spade-handed doctor perhaps — I had enjoyed every second and for me that was a big deal.
   • He was tall, this Swiss priest, lantern-jawed and spade-handed.
2. 2

   Having hands that are used for digging.

   • Even the spade-handed moles shall declare their folly.
   • They in their turn sought useful wives, the broad-hipped, spade-handed type of wives who might build houses and bear children in the same afternoon and still have supper on the table when they got home.
   • Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb From maid and head,

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