dial. [Alteration of PATTLE sb., perh. after prec.] A plough-spade or other small spade. Also spattle-hoe.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 460. Another, perhaps, gives the sock, another the stilts, another the spattle.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 528/1. Farmers became country gentlemen; changing … the spattle-hoe for the riding-whip.
1869–94. in Lanc. and Northumbld. glossaries.
