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.

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Spade (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.] To dig

with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.