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n oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

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

of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

As much as a spade will hold or lift.

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

A spade for digging turf. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. -- To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. -- To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act…

for twenty-one points. Great cassino, the ten of diamonds. -- Little cassino, the two of spades.

A kind of spade. [Eng.]

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.

One who digs, as with a spade.

A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.]

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.

erations, etc. -- Grafting tool. (a) Any tool used in grafting. (b) A very strong curved spade used in digging canals. -- Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.

Grasp; reach. [Obs.] A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. Holland.

To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. Shak.

iked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. -- Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator.