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