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spadeworker

noun

Etymology

From spadework + -er or spade + worker.

  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”
  8. suffixed as spadeworker — “spadework + er”

Definitions

  1. One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.

    • Like master like man. The peasants and artisans follow their neighbors; the spade-workers voting with Bismarck and Falkenstein, the hand-workers with Jacoby and Rosenkranz.

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