Read the excerpt from "Digging." The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Which idea is typically associated with the word "spade”?

A spade is a tool used for digging, which involves physical labor. In the excerpt, the speaker describes men cutting through peat and roots, so “spade” is associated with hard work, not leisure, city life, or writing poems.

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