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Definition of Spade bit
1. Noun. A thin bit with a center point and cutting edges on either side.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spade Bit
Literary usage of Spade bit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"Spanish spade bit. 2. Spanish Hing Bit. (Both are brutal and of no ... The California
vaquero rode with a heavy silver-mounted spade bit with a huge burr or ..."
2. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"Spanish spade bit. 2. Spanish Ring Bit. (Both are brutal and of no ... The California
vaquero rode with a heavy silver-mounted spade bit with a huge burr or ..."
3. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the by Philip Ashton Rollins (1922)
"... in length and bent backward at its top, there was thereby created a "spade bit."
This was the bit most commonly used. Not content with attacking merely ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"Decently; orderly; moderately Also an adjective. North. GRADUATE. A physician.
Suffolk. GRAF. The depth of a spade's bit in digging. Salop. Hence, to dig. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"... the receptacle of such drainage. Sough (pron. SUFF), [suf] sb. a covered drain
of any size. Spade-bit, sb. the quantity of soil raised by one effort ..."
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