spadeful
- n the quantity a shovel can hold
- Each spadeful of dirt an archaeologist turns up could yield evidence about how, and even whether, these and other biblical figures actually lived.
- Professionally he scooped up a spadeful, started a housing project for Brewster Aeronautical Corp.
- No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to .