spade foot

noun Furniture.

a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.

Origin of spade foot

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby spade foot

spacing, spacious, spackle, spad, spade, spade foot, spade guinea, spadefish, spadefoot, spadefoot toad, spadeful

Example sentences from the Web for spade foot

  • I found on investigation that the water was moving with spade-foot toads.

    Wild Life Near Home |Dallas Lore Sharp

  • The water was almost jellied with their spawn, and a little later was swarming with spade-foot tadpoles.

    Wild Life Near Home |Dallas Lore Sharp

  • The one on the left has the Prince's feathers, and all of them show the slender leg which in two of them ends in the spade-foot.

    The Old Furniture Book |N. Hudson Moore

  • The legs were generally much more slender than the Chippendale and often ended in what is known as a spade-foot.

    Remodeled Farmhouses |Mary H. Northend

British Dictionary definitions for spade foot

spade foot

noun

a spadelike projection at the end of a chair leg