Spade,

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.]
     1. (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also
        {spaid}, {spayade}.]
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     2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. spaed; 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.
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     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.
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              "Let spades be trumps!" she said.     --Pope.
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     3. 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spade \Spade\ (sp[=a]d), 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 a Black person; "only a
          Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: {nigger}, {nigga},
           {coon}, {jigaboo}, {nigra}]
       v : dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower
           beds"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "spade":
     American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian,
     Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito,
     Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, ace, backset, bail, best bower,
     black, black man, blackfellow, bore, bower, boy, brown man, bucket,
     burrhead, burrow, cards, clubs, colored person, coon, cultivate,
     culture, cup, cut, darky, decant, deck, delve, deuce, diamonds,
     dig, dig out, dike, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dredge, dress,
     drill, drive, dummy, excavate, face cards, fallow, fertilize,
     flush, force, fork, full house, furrow, gook, gouge, gouge out,
     groove, grub, hand, harrow, hearts, hoe, honky, jack, jigaboo,
     joker, jungle bunny, king, knave, ladle, left bower, list, lower,
     mine, mulch, nigger, niggra, ofay, pack, pair, paleface,
     picture cards, playing cards, plow, pour, prune, pygmy, quarry,
     queen, rake, red man, redskin, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff,
     sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shovel,
     singleton, sink, slant-eye, spades, spoon, straight, the Man, thin,
     thin out, till, till the soil, trench, trey, trick, trough, trump,
     tunnel, weed, weed out, white, white man, whitey, work,
     yellow man
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SPADE
       Statistical Packet Anomaly Detection Engine (Snort, IDS)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SPADE
       
          Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction.
          Specification language.  G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div,
          FLAG/UD/3DR.003
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Spade, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
     Population (2000):    100
     Housing Units (2000): 49
     Land area (2000):     1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            69380
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             33.918381 N, 102.149654 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Spade, TX
      Spade