spade

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for spade

spade 🔊 /spejˈd/

spade : ඉස්කෝප්පය

spade definition

Noun.

  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.

Transitive verb. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.