Mrs. Fothergill followed up swiftly, striking again with a spade-like hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

The incisors are flat and spade-like, useful for peeling, snipping and biting relatively soft materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City] Reference

Warren turned back as Katie torpedoed toward him, fence post in her hands, the spade-like tip aimed at his chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [DUMPING THE DEAD • by Barbara A. Barnett] Reference

A heavy chain and padlock held the main gate closed, and iron fence posts pointed toward the sky with sharp, spade-like tips.    From Wordnik.com.  [DUMPING THE DEAD • by Barbara A. Barnett] Reference

A spade-like tool for digging hasty entrenchments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Top] Reference

The hypertrophy involves all the tissues, giving a curious spade-like appearance to the hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

•Features: Plump body, tiny warts, golden marking on back, spade-like protrusion on feet used for digging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference

Hand saws finish the cuts, and blocks are shoved apart using a long-handled spade-like tool called a "devil's pitchfork.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancaster Farming - Lancaster Farming] Reference

As it came slowly forth and overhung the chasm, we saw that it was a very large snake with a peculiar flat, spade-like head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference

But I much prefer the spade-like hammering that my back receives at my (also, pretty female) traditionally brutal physiotherapist.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24 Top Stories] Reference

And his front legs were just long enough so that he could reach his large, spade-like feet beyond his nose and throw the dirt back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference

The disease is not myxedema because there is no peculiar physiognomy, no spade-like hands nor infiltrated skin, no alteration of the speech, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Spadefoots are known for their plump bodies, tiny warts and a spade-like protrusion on their feet, used to dig the burrows where they live for most of their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference

Elsewhere he would have moved, we may suppose, for the spade-like virtues bear their fruits; persistent and thrifty, solid and square, will fetch some sort of yield out of any soil; but he would not have gone far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference

The kicking and pawing of the moss-covered ground with their spade-like feet tear it up, level it, and cut off the dense moss and creeping plants, bring the sub-soil to the top, and over the whole the big herd spreads a good covering of manure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

Quite early in spring, when the sun and vernal breezes have dried up the soil, and the fields exchange their rusty hues for the rich green verdure of May, our Andrena, tired of its idle life among the blossoms of the willow, the wild cherry, and garden flowers, suddenly becomes remarkably industrious, and wields its spade-like jaws and busy feet with a strange and unwonted energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Pieces of boal fish, cooked in turmeric, red chilli paste, onions and garlic, lay in a red, fiery sauce in a red pan; rice, packed into an even white cake, had a spade-like spoon embedded in it; slices of fried aubergine were arranged on a white dish; dal was served from another pan with a dropping ladle; long, complex filaments of banana-flower, exotic, botanical, lay in yet another pan in a dark sauce; each plate had a heap of salt on one side, a green chilli, and a slice of sweet-smelling lemon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference