Spade

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

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.
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.

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