SPADE
NOUNS
1000 — DELF a thrust of the spade; a digging or delving → obs.
1000 — SPITTLE a spade or small spade → now Eng. dial.
1252 — SPADE-GRAFT a spade’s depth
1411 — SPADE-TREE a spade handle → Eng. dial.
1450 — SCAVEL • SKAFFEL a small spade used in draining, having its sides slight turned up → Eng. dial.
1485 — SCUPPET a spade used for trenching and in making ditches → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1523 — GRAFF the depth of earth that may be thrown up at once with a spade → obs.
1573 — GARTH-SPADE a garden spade → obs.
1580 — DIDALL • DIDLE a sharp triangular spade, used for clearing out ditches and watercourses → Eng. dial.
1600 — SPITTER a spade → Eng. dial.
1602 — ADAM’S ARMS a spade → sl.
1620 — GRAFT the depth of earth that may be thrown up at once with a spade
1664 — SPADE-GRAFF the handle of a spade → obs.
1675 — SPIT the quantity of earth taken up by a spade at a time; a spadeful
1669 — SPADDLE a small spade → obs.
1745 — SLANE a long-handled spade, having a wing at one or both sides of the blade, used for cutting turf → Ireland
1763 — LOY a spade → Ireland
1764 — BECKET a narrow, elongated spade used for cutting turf, usually having a second cutter or wing set at a right angle to the main blade → Eng. dial.
1778 — RUTTER a spade for cutting or marking off turf or ground → chiefly Sc.
1789 — SCRAW-SPADE a spade resembling the letter T, with an iron plate at the lower end, considerably bent, used to cut sods → Eng. dial.
1812 — TURSKILL a spade for cutting peat → Sc.
1825 — TOMMY — TOMMY SPADE a small, flat spade with sharp edges, used esp. in excavating underground drains → Eng. dial. obs.
1842 — SPITFUL a spadeful
1863 — FACK — FECK a long-handled spade → Ireland
1869 — DELVE the plunging of a spade into the ground
1877 — PALM the hollow of a spade → Eng. dial.
1879 — NAVIGATOR a narrow spade used in digging drains → Eng. dial. obs.
1893 — GRAFT a narrow crescent-shaped spade used in digging drains
1894 — TRAMP the part of a spade which is pressed upon by the foot
1903 — MUMP a spade’s depth in digging turf → Eng. dial.
1905 — TILLER the wooden handle of a spade or shovel → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1000 — DELVE to dig, to turn up with the spade
1393 — SPIT to dig with a spade, to delve → Eng. dial.
1775 — RUT to cut or make a furrow through turf with a spade → Eng. dial.
1840 — SPADE-TRENCH to dig deeply with a spade
1864 — TREE to fit a spade with a wooden handle
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