Definition of spade

• n. - A hart or stag three years old.
• n. - A castrated man or beast.
• 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.
• n. - One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
• n. - A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
• v. t. - To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.