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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Spade

Spade (spade)
n.(?)
Spade
[Cf. Spay, ]
  1. A hart or stag three years old.
    [Written also spaid, spayade.]
  2. A castrated man or beast.

Spade

Spade (spade)
n.
Spade
  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.
    "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.
  2. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

    "Let spades be trumps!" she said. Pope.

  3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

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

Spade

Spade (spade)
v. t.(?)
Spade
[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.












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