Spade

Spade - Other Definitions

• (n.) A hart or stag three years old.
  
  
• (n.) A castrated man or beast.
  
  
• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
  
  
• (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
  
  
• (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.