- A hart or stag three years old. - A castrated man or beast. - 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. - One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more
figures resembling a spade. - A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
2 . Spade
[ v. t.]
- To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land,
with a spade.
Meaning of 'spade' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . spade
[ n]
Meaning (1): - a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it