bar spade

noun

: a trenching spade with a cutting blade welded across the ends of three parallel bars for use in spading wet sticky soil

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Rhymes for bar spade

• afraid
• allayed
• arcade
• arrayed
• assayed
• barmaid
• betrayed
• blockade
• bridesmaid
• brigade
• brocade
• buffeted