Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spade"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. sp[ae]d; spada; akin to D. spade, G.
spaten, Icel. spa[eth]i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a
spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf.
{Epaulet}, {Spade} at cards, {Spathe}, {Spatula}.]
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. [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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spade \Spade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spading}.]
To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with
a spade.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also
{spaid}, {spayade}.]

2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

spade
n 1: a playing card in the major suit of spades
2: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with
the foot
3: (ethnic slur) offensive name for Black person [syn: {nigger},
{coon}, {jigaboo}, {nigra}]
v : dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower
beds"


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