scuffle2 (skufl)

[A dial. var. of shovel (AS. scoft ): see shovell.] 1. A form of garden hoe or thrust-hoe which is pushed instead of pulled, and commonly has a narrow, sharp blade set nearly in line with the handle: used for cutting off weeds beneath the surface of the ground. Where so much is to do in the beds, he were a sorry gardener who should wage a whole day's war with an iron scuffle on those ill weeds that make the garden-walks of life unsightly. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 1st ser., iii., note. 2. A child's pinafore or bib. [Prov. Eng.] scuffle-harrow (skuf'l-har"ō), n. A form of harrow in which cutting-shares are substituted for the ordinary teeth.