Sentence examples for a small spade from inspiring English sources

Goldstein found the winning defense by returning a small spade, which was won in dummy with the queen.

Being without benefit of a truffle dog, let alone a small spade or even a soup spoon for loosening the soil, Luard and I abandoned the men, who by then were up to their wrists in dirt, hoping to find a truffle that the badgers had missed.

Use a small spade to shovel it into a bucket.

Pull up the dead grass and break up the soil with a small spade.

The small spade or cultivators can be used to "stir" the soil and keep the water moving through smoothly, much like worms would do outside.

South led a low spade.

Understandably, though, East tried a low spade.

Then he called for a low spade.

One opponent had seven small spades with no entry, which was disastrous for the defense.

Ms K. Bolton: You get low clubs and diamonds, I have small spades.

When the folks at Fort Mason Community Gardeners heard about her they gave her a small rake, a spade and bag of seeds.