14.. 724 Summe had..nawg[er]es, Cultorus, syþus kene wytall, Spytyll-forkus þe sowlys to fall.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. 608 Let there bee then either a small furrow rased along just through the middest of the shaddow with a spittle spade, or the point of some hooke.
?1881 (?1885) 43 Spittle Maker (Spade Handle).