meaning of spade

1. A hart or stag three years old.
2. A castrated man or beast.
3. 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. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
5. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
6. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
7. SPADE Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction. Specification language. G. S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR. 003 spaghetti code A pejorative term for code with a complex and tangled control structure, especially one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other "unstructured" branching constructs. The synonym "kangaroo code" has been reported, doubtless because such code has so many jumps in it. [Jargon File]
8. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

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