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spade - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'spade' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Spade [ n.]
- A hart or stag three years old.
- A castrated man or beast.
- 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.
- One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
2 . Spade [ v. t.]
- To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Meaning of 'spade' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . spade [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
Example in sentence:
  • she led a low spade;
  • spades were trumps
2 . spade [ v]
Meaning (2):
- dig (up) with a spade
Example in sentence:
  • I spade compost into the flower beds