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   Spade , n. [Cf. Spay, n.]
   (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]
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   [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
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   Spade, n. [AS. spaed; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spaði, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. σπάθη. Cf. Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.]
   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.”
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   [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. σπάθη. See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
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   “Let spades be trumps!” she said.
   Pope.
   
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   A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
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   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.
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   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.
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