spaid

See also: Spaid and spáid

English

Noun

spaid (plural spaids)

1. Obsolete form of spade (digging tool)
   • 1665, John Rea, Flora, seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege:

     prick down a line eight or ten foot long, and with a Spaid cut the Turfs thereby

References

• “spaid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• DIPAs, apids, sapid

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English spade.

Noun

spaid f (genitive singular spaide, plural spaidean)

1. spade