Usually means: Tool for digging, cutting earth.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. spad: Merriam-Webster
  2. SPAD: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. SPAD: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Spad, spad: Wordnik
  5. SPAD, spad: Wiktionary
  6. Spad: Dictionary.com
  7. Spad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. SPAD (disambiguation), SPAD, Spad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. spad: FreeDictionary.org
  10. SPAD: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPAD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SPAD: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (SpAd)

noun:  (UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
noun:  (mining) A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
noun:  (rail transport, UK) An instance of a signal passed at danger.
noun:  (plant science) A relative measurement of the amount of chlorophyll present in a leaf, based on measurements with a SPAD meter produced by Minolta.
verb:  (rail transport, UK) To pass a signal at danger.
noun:  Clipping of spadona/spadone.
noun:  (UK politics, informal) Alternative form of spad (“special advisor in government”) [(UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.]
noun:  (military) Initialism of self-propelled air defense; a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle.
noun:  (UK politics, informal) Alternative letter-case form of spad (“special adviser”) [(UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.]

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