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Spade   /speɪd/   Listen
Spade

noun
1.
A playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it.  "Spades were trumps"
2.
A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.
3.
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person.  Synonyms: coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra.
verb
(past & past part. spaded; pres. part. spading)
1.
Dig (up) with a spade.



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"Spade" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am a gardener. I dig the ground, and plant things that are to live and grow. My works don't all moulder away, and rot in the earth. You see that spade in ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... we will go, Take the rake, the spade, the hoe, Dig the border nice and clean, And rake till not ...
— The Keepsake - or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth • Anonymous
... left us— Left the battle line? Idling, straggling, wand'ring, Heedless of the sign? Hark! the trumpet calls thee! With us heart and hand Raise the Spade and Anchor! Strike for Sea ...
— The Kirk on Rutgers Farm • Frederick Bruckbauer
... Pittsburgh Mission at Atoka was closed, Mrs. O. D. Spade, one of the teachers, took Lucretia C. Brown, a pupil of eight years, to her home at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and enabled her to graduate from the Grammar and High schools of that city in 1910. In 1912, after rendering one year of earnest and faithful service as assistant matron at Oak ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... place there. Had architects and landscape-gardeners prowling 'round for the last two weeks, and old man Fay won't allow one of them on the grounds. You'd die laughing to see him chasing them off with a spade or a rake or whatever he has in his hand. His property till July ninth, he says, and he wouldn't let so much as a crow fly over it if it belonged to Hadley B. Hobson. You'd ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King


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