Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spad"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spad \Spad\, n. (Mining)
A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner
iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark
stations in underground surveying.
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