Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

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.