spade
nounEtymology
Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spắthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
Definitions
A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a…
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.
- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
- "[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
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To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- I've got only one spade in my hand.
A black person.
- And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.
- Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".
simple past and past participle of spay
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
bucket and spade, call a spade a shovel, call a spade a spade, call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel, call a spade a spade, not a big spoon, peat spade, respade, spaddle, spadeable, spadebone, spadefish, spade foot, spadefoot, spade-foot, spade fork, spadeful, spade-handed, spadeless, spadelike, spademan, spade-man, spade man, spade mashie, spade money, spadesman, spadetail, spade-toothed whale, spadewise, spadework, spadeworker, spade-worker, spadish, turf spade
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA