A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
I've got only one spade in my hand.
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
simple past and past participle of spay
A surname.
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
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