Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A hart or stag three years old. 2. (n.) A castrated man or beast. 3. (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. 4. (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. 5. (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. 6. (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Multi-Version Concordance Spade (5 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 23:13 And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth: (BBE NAS) Isaiah 5:2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. (BBE) Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it. (BBE) Isaiah 7:25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns. (BBE) Joel 1:17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead. (BBE)