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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
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 â™ .
(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 12264th 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
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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