spade : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spade	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for spade
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spade n a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps" a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" Synonym(s): nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra v dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. sp[91]d; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa[edh]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. [bd]With spade and pickax armed.[b8] --Milton. 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. [bd]Let spades be trumps![b8] she said. --Pope. 3. 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. See Illust. of {Knuckle joint}, under {Knuckle}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spade \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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SPADE Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction. Specification language. G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR.003