Word Meanings - SPADDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little spade.

SPADER
One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
SPADE
A hart or stag three years old. 2. Etym:
LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
SPADEFISH
An American market fish common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
SPADEBONE
Shoulder blade.
SPADEFOOT
Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.
SPADEFUL
As much as a spade will hold or lift.
LITTLE
place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
ROYAL SPADE
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.
BELITTLE
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.