spade

Noun · Verb
US[speyd]/speɪd/1 syllable

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)spades

  1. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it“she led a low spade”“spades were trumps”Type of playing cardMember of major suit
  2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the footType of hand shovelKinds ditch spade, garden spade

Verb (1)spades, spaded, spading

  1. dig (up) with a spade“I spade compost into the flower beds”More general dig, delveMore specific ridge
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Spade noun

Origin: Cf. Spay, noun

1. Zoology A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]

2. A castrated man or beast.

Spade noun

Origin: AS. spaed; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spaði, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. σπάθη. 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.” John Milton

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

“Let spades be trumps!” she said.— Alexander 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 Machinery, the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

Spade (spād), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Spaded; present participle & verbal noun Spading.]

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

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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SPADE

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