Spade /(?)/

Spade

n.
  1. A hart or stag three years old. (Zool.)
  2. A castrated man or beast.

Spade

n.
  1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
  2. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
    “Let spades be trumps!” she said.
  3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Phrases & Compounds
Spade bayonet
a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.
Spade handle
the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

Spade

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading

  1. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.