Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A castrated animal; a gelding.
- noun In civil law, one who from any cause has not the power of procreation; an impotent person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
spade , 2. - noun (Law) An impotent person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who has been
castrated ; aeunuch orcastrato .
Etymologies
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Examples
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By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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To escape by my own cunning, in the face of danger and by my own will, was one thing -- to be ordered away from the battle like a spado was quite another.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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It also brought to her recollection, that indolence and pride so often manifested in their hiring a market woman to follow them with the morsel they disdained to carry; while the haughty fool strutted on before, his ragged capota thrown over his arm to expose an old and rusty spado, as it dangled in useless state from a leathern belt.
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There was a soldier placed at the door with a drawn spado in his hand, to prevent our stirring out, which was quite unnecessary, as we knew not where to go if we had been at liberty.
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He was an old man, very tall, with a long cloak on, a tye-wig without any curl, and a spado of immense length by his aide.
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