Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The blade of a spade, with the tang or socket by which it is secured to the handle.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing representing
- noun the whole blade of a spade, without the handle or with a truncated piece of the handle, or
- noun an iron or steel border put upon the blade of a spade to reinforce or repair it.
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The spade-iron has been submitted to the same process, but no corresponding effect can be produced.
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