noun
- the amount that a spade can hold or dig up at one time
Examples
- He dug up a spadeful of rich, dark soil.
- Each spadeful of dirt was carefully placed in the wheelbarrow.
- The gardener added a spadeful of compost to each planting hole.
- It took many spadefuls to fill the large flower bed.
- She turned over spadeful after spadeful of earth in the vegetable garden.
- The archaeologist examined every spadeful of excavated material.