Word Meanings - DELVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who digs, as with a spade.

Related words: (words related to DELVER)

• SPADER
  One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
• SPADE
  A hart or stag three years old. 2. Etym:
• 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.
• 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.