n. | 1. | (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. | ||||||
2. | A castrated man or beast. | |||||||
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. | |||||||
2. | One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. | |||||||
3. | A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
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v. t. | 1. | To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade. |
Noun | 1. | spade - a playing card in the major suit of spades |
2. | spade - a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | |
3. | spade - (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" | |
Verb | 1. | spade - dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds" |
SPADE - Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction. Specification language. G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR.003 |