Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little spade; a spud.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A little spade.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A little spade.

Etymologies

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spade +‎ -le?

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Examples

  • The spaddle is generally made of copper, kept bright and clean.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The use of the spaddle is to stir up and remove from the sides of the freezing pot the cream, which in the shaking may have washed against it, and by stirring it in with the rest, to prevent waste of it occurring.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The spaddle is generally made of copper, kept bright and clean.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The use of the spaddle is to stir up and remove from the sides of the freezing pot the cream, which in the shaking may have washed against it, and by stirring it in with the rest, to prevent waste of it occurring.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Mix and stir the dough very hard with a spaddle, or a wooden spoon; but do not knead it.

    Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

  • Stir the whole mixture very hard with a spaddle or with a wooden spoon, and make it into a lump of dough just stiff enough to roll out into a sheet about half an inch thick.

    Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

  • Butter and sugar cannot be stirred together conveniently without a spaddle or spattle, which is a round stick flattened at one end; and a deep earthen pan with sides nearly straight.

    Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

  • a warm place to soften, and then stir it very hard with the spaddle, till it becomes quite light, and of the consistence of cream.

    Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

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