Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.
spades
plural of spade
spades
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol â™ .
A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
spades
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spade
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Spades
plural of Spade
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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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.