Spade, n.
1. 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. “With spade and pickax armed.”
2. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
=\“Let spades be trumps!” she said.\= --Pope.
3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.
Spade handle Mach., the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.
Trow·el n.
1. A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2. A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
3. Founding A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade.
Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.
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