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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