Found 3 items, similar to Spade.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: spade
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spade
spade
n 1: a playing card in the major suit of spades
2: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with
the foot
3: (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;
“only a
Black can call another Black a nigga” [syn:
nigger,
nigga,
coon,
jigaboo,
nigra]
v : dig (up) with a spade;
“I spade compost into the flower
beds”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Spade
Spade
\Spade\ (sp[=a]d), 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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Spade
\Spade\, n. [Cf.
Spay, n.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also
spaid,
spayade.]
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2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
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Spade
\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.
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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.
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“Let spades be trumps!” she said. --Pope.
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3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
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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.
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