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What is a spadeful?

What is a spadeful? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The amount held by (or moved by) a spade (shovel) at once. A shovelful.
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The first spadeful revealed five crocosmia corms stacked vertically, like buns in a bakery.
And they cannot put more than one spadeful of rubbish in each bag as it may tear.
But to deny what we cannot prove, not even casts into our ice-house a spadeful of snow.
The day's work ends around five, in time for tea and chatter about this or that spadeful of triumph or mystery.
Yesterday a spadeful of diamonds dumped upon a velvet cloth was only a spadeful of diamonds to him, and it was nothing more.
This hypothesis crumbled at the first spadeful below the topsoil.

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