1.noun(furniture) A block-shaped foot higher than wide and tapering slightly toward the bottom. The spade foot usually terminates a tapering leg, and the top of the foot is wider than the leg.
2.nounThe foot that is habitually used to put pressure on a spade when digging.
3.nounAny member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.