Obs. [f. spaid, spayed, pa. pple. of SPAY v., perh. associated with L. spado: see SPADE sb.4] trans. To spay.
1611. Chapman, Widowes T., Wks. 1873, III. 83. I’ll have all young widows spaded for marrying again.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 208. The women of Egypt were sometimes spaded.
1710. London’s Med. Informer, 32. Women may be Spaded by Sow-Gelders.
Hence † Spaded ppl. a.2; Spader; Spading vbl. sb. Obs.
1648. Hexham, II. Gelte,… a spaded Hogge, a barrow Hogge, or a Sowe. Ibid., Een Lubber, a Gelder, or a Spader. Een Lubbinge, a Gelding or a Spading.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 143. If some shall … object, that gelding and spading be unnatural Actions. Ibid., 148. Concerning Pork and Hog’s Flesh made of a spaded Sow, or a Hog gelded.
1816. Sporting Mag., XLVII. 204. Those spaded bitches appeared to have been grunes or greyhounds.
