bucket and spade — A child s beach toy, comprising a small bucket and spade for playing with sand and water • • • Main Entry: ↑bucket … Useful english dictionary
bucket — noun ⇨ See also ↑pail ADJECTIVE ▪ empty, full ▪ galvanized, metal, plastic ▪ leaky ▪ champagne … Collocations dictionary
spade — noun 1 tool for digging ADJECTIVE ▪ garden ▪ There was a garden spade in the shed. VERB + SPADE ▪ use ▪ He dug a deep hole in the lawn with his spade … Collocations dictionary
spade — UK [speɪd] / US noun Word forms spade : singular spade plural spades 1) a) [countable] a tool used for digging that consists of a handle and a flat metal part that you push into the earth with your foot b) British a toy that children use for… … English dictionary
Spade — For other uses, see Spade (disambiguation). small spade for clay soil; the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth.[1] Early spades were made of riven wood. After… … Wikipedia
bucket — Synonyms and related words: argosy, bail, bark, barrel, be caught short, be short, belong, boat, bottom, bucketshop, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, craft, cup, decant, deposit margin, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fly, fork, go long, hasten,… … Moby Thesaurus
spade — Synonyms and related words: American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, ace, backset, bail, best bower, black, black man,… … Moby Thesaurus
Mop bucket cart — A mop bucket cart (or mop trolley) is a wheeled bucket that allows user to wring out a wet mop without getting the hands dirty. The cart has two buckets with the upper one usually clipped onto the lower.[1] The upper bucket is used to place wet… … Wikipedia
The Silver Spade — was a giant excavator used for strip mining in Ohio. Built by Bucyrus Erie the model 1950 B was one of two of this model built, the other being The GEM of Egypt . Erected in 1965 the giant shovel mining excavator was decommissioned in December… … Wikipedia
Tap and die — Not to be confused with Tool and die. Taps and dies are cutting tools used to create screw threads, which is called threading. A tap is used to cut the female portion of the mating pair (e.g., a nut). A die is used to cut the male portion of the… … Wikipedia
