Spade

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A castrated man or beast.

II. Spade ·noun A hart or stag three years old.

III. Spade ·noun A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

IV. Spade ·vt To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

V. Spade ·noun One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

VI. Spade ·noun 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.

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