1. spade - Noun
2. spade - Verb
3. Spade - Proper noun
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.
To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. William Stanley Jevons
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do." Ludwig Wittgenstein
The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one.”. Madagascan Proverb
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in. Madagascan Proverb
He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade. Spanish Proverb