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spadework

noun

Etymology

From spade + work.

  1. inherited from *werǵ-✻ — “to make”
  2. inherited from *wérǵom✻ — “work”
  3. inherited from *werką✻ — “work”
  4. inherited from *werk✻
  5. inherited from weorc
  6. inherited from work
  7. compounded as spadework — “spade + work”

Definitions

  1. Work done by digging with a spade.

  2. Work done in preparation for something else.

    • There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented.
    • Some essential spadework, on which certain details of the plan will be founded, is yet unfinished.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spadework. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA