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Spade

Spade Meaning & Definition
Spade Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Spade?

[n] a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
[n] a playing card in the major suit of spades
[n] (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigger"
[v] dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Spade: coon | jigaboo | nigger | nigra

Related Terms | Find terms related to Spade:

See Also | Black | black person | blackamoor | boy | cut into | delve | dig | ditch spade | garden spade | hand shovel | long-handled spade | major suit | Negro | Negroid | playing card | ridge | turn over

Spade In Webster's Dictionary

\Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.] 2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
\Spade\, n. [AS. sp[ae]d; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa[eth]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. --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}.] To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

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