Spade Definition

spād
spaded, spades, spading
noun
spades
A heavy, flat-bladed, long-handled tool used for digging by pressing the metal blade into the ground with the foot.
Webster's New World
Any of several tools resembling a spade.
Webster's New World
A part of the trail of a gun carriage which digs into the ground, so as to brace the gun during recoil.
Webster's New World
Any of a suit of playing cards marked with black figures shaped like this: ♠
Webster's New World
A playing card with this figure.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
spaded, spades, spading
To dig or cut with or as with a spade.
Webster's New World

Spay.

Webster's New World
(videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
call a spade a spade
  • To speak plainly and forthrightly.
American Heritage
in spades
  • To a considerable degree:

    They had financial trouble in spades.

American Heritage
call a spade a spade
  • to call something by its right name; use plain, blunt words
Webster's New World
in spades
  • in an extreme or emphatic way
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Spade

Noun

Singular:
spade
Plural:
spades

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Spade

Origin of Spade

  • From Old English spadu, spada, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sphâ‚‚-dÊ°-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spathÄ“, “blade"), Hittite iÅ¡patar (“spear") [Cuneiform?].

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian spade pl. of spada card suit from Latin spatha sword, broad-bladed stirrer from Greek spathē broad blade

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English spadu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare spay, noun.

    From Wiktionary

Spade Sentence Examples

  • A hoe or a spade is almost unknown.

  • She stabbed the spade into the flowerbed and gazed off into the distance.

  • Then cut a large circle around the tree with a sharp spade.

  • If your penchant for designer style knows no bounds, consider a Kate Spade beach bag for your next trip to the seaside.

  • Let the turf be taken off with the spade, and laid carefully aside for relaying.

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Words Starting With

SSPSPA

Words Ending With

EDEADE

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