spade

[Spade]

If you're a gardener, you know that a spade is a small shovel with a short handle. A spade is perfect for planting bulbs and digging up weeds.

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A hart or stag three years old.

Noun
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

Noun
a playing card in the major suit of spades

Noun
(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"

Verb
dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"

n.
A hart or stag three years old.

n.
A castrated man or beast.

n.
An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.

n.
One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

n.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

v. t.
To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Spade

Spade , n. [Cf. Spay, n.] 1. (Zo'94l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.

Spade

Spade, n. [AS. sp'91d; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa&edh;i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.] 1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton. 2. [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

"Let spades be trumps!" she said.

3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

Spade

Spade , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.] To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

A hart or stag three years old.

An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.

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