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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Spade

/spād/ · IPA /speɪ̯d/
01 n. A hart or stag three years old.
  1. 1.
    A hart or stag three years old.(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    A castrated man or beast.
02 n. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like th…
  1. 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. 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. 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.
03 v. t. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading
  1. 1.
    To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.