spade
see also: Spade
Pronunciation
Spade
Proper noun
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see also: Spade
Pronunciation
- IPA: /speɪd/
spade (plural spades)
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- I've got only one spade in my hand.
- (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- French: bêche, pelle
- German: Spaten
- Italian: vanga
- Portuguese: pá
- Russian: штыкова́я лопа́та
- Spanish: pala, azada
spade (spades, present participle spading; past and past participle spaded)
- To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
spade (plural spades)
Spade
Proper noun
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