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noun

Spade n.

(Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. (Written also spaid, spayade)

A castrated man or beast.

Spade 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. "With spade and pickax armed."

One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. ""Let spades be trumps!" she said."

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.

verb

Spade v. t. (past & past part. spaded; pres. part. spading) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

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"Spade" Quotes from Famous Books

... fainting from loss of blood, he was tied to a tree, and the privilege of shooting him was sold at auction. They required his companion to witness these brutalities. Whenever he turned away his eyes, his captors pressed the point of a saber into his cheek. Finally, they compelled him to take a spade and dig his own grave. When it was finished, they stripped him of his clothing, and shot him as he stood by the brink of the ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... he had seen. Henderson was a minute or so taking it in. Then he dropped his spade, snatched up his jacket, and came out into the road. The two men hurried back at once to the common, and found the cylinder still lying in the same position. But now the sounds inside had ceased, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between the top and the body of the cylinder. ...

— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... on the ebb, and a current set strongly against the point of dike where the diggers were at work. This fact tended to make the results of their work the more immediately apparent, rendering mighty assistance to every stroke of the spade. At the same time, however, it told heavily in favor of the English, for, in order to counteract the special stream, the dike at this point was of great additional strength. Moreover, in the tidal rivers of that region the ebb and flow are so vast and so swift, that ...

— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts

... Cockrell roved far enough to find on the knoll a small pit freshly dug, with a spade and pick beside it. Like excited children, his two comrades ran to inspect the hole which Blackbeard's seamen had dug ready for the treasure chest. Then they scattered to explore the knoll in search of signs to indicate where previous hoards might have been buried. Trimble ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... the soil, and that while it stood they could not expect a very great show of vegetables. Mrs. Barfield asked if the sale of the tree trunk would indemnify her for the cost of cutting it down. Jim paused in his work, and, leaning on his spade, considered if there was any one in the town, who, for the sake of the timber, would cut the tree down and take it away for nothing. There ought to be some such person in town; if it came to that, Mrs. Barfield ought to receive something for the tree. Walnut was a valuable ...

— Esther Waters • George Moore

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