Thesaurus: spade

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1. n. A hart or stag three years old.
2. n. A castrated man or beast.
3. 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.
4. n. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
5. n. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
6. v. t. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
7. n. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
8. n. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
9. v. dig (up) with a spade
10. 1. (Zoöl.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.] 2. Etym: [Cf. L. spado.] 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. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton. 2. Etym: [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] 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. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
11. A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]
12. n:100 n. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it n. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot v. dig (up) with a spade