SPADE

spade

(noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

spade

(noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; “she led a low spade”; “spades were trumps”

spade

(verb) dig (up) with a spade; “I spade compost into the flower beds”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

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.

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Verb

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Etymology 2

Noun

spade (plural spades)

A hart or stag three years old.

A castrated man or animal.

Anagrams

• adeps, apsed, paeds, pedas

Proper noun

Spade (plural Spades)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Spade is the 12264^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2536 individuals. Spade is most common among White (90.93%) individuals.

Anagrams

• adeps, apsed, paeds, pedas

Source: Wiktionary

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Spade, n. Etym: [Cf. Spay, n.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]

2. Etym: [Cf. L. spado.]

Definition: A castrated man or beast.

Spade, n. Etym: [AS. spæd; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spaedhi, 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. Etym: [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.]

Definition: One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. "Let spades be trumps!" she said. Pope.

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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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