spadeworker

Etymology
or

Noun

 * 1) One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.
 * 2) * 1942,, article on first published in , Volume 25, 15 August, 1942, cited in Dorothy Nyren Curley et al. (editors), Modern American Literature, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960, p. 109,
 * She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.
 * 1) * 1942,, article on first published in , Volume 25, 15 August, 1942, cited in Dorothy Nyren Curley et al. (editors), Modern American Literature, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960, p. 109,
 * She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.
 * She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.