Definition of Spade

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Definition of Spade

Spade

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.

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

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Spade Quotations

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Ethel Waters

After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
Kaley Cuoco

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
Gertrude Jekyll

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens

Spade Translations

spade in Danish is grave, spade
spade in Dutch is woelen, spitten, graven
spade in Finnish is kaivaa
spade in German is Spaten, graben, Spaten
spade in Italian is vanga, badile
spade in Latin is pala
spade in Spanish is espatula, cavar
spade in Swedish is spade

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