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Spade :: Spade (n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel..

Spade :: Spade (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spade :: Spade (n.) A hart or stag three years old.

Delve :: Delve (v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge..

Spitted :: Spit (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

Spadefoot :: Spadefoot (n.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad..

Spader :: Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine..

Spade :: Spade (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade..

Spadefish :: Spadefish (n.) An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy..

Chopness :: Chopness (n.) A kind of spade.

Spaded :: Spaded (imp. & p. p.) of Spad.

Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

Matador :: Matador (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..

Spadeful :: Spadeful (n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.

Spadille :: Spadille (n.) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

Delver :: Delver (n.) One who digs, as with a spade..

Spaddle :: Spaddle (n.) A little spade.

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully..

Scaphopda :: Scaphopda (n. pl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha..

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