#digging tool

• Spade — An archaic regional term, found in Transylvania and adjacent areas, used to designate an iron tool with sharp edges (a type of spade, shovel, or plow blade) used for digging the soil, cutting roots, or cleaning firing hearths; it originates as a structural borrowing from the Hungarian language (ásó). Broadly, it describes a rudimentary but durable metallic instrument, essential in traditional rural households for working compact soils.