spade

About 1.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.
2. noun A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
3. noun A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
4. verb To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
5. verb To move with a spade, or as with a spade.
6. noun A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

   I've got only one spade in my hand.

7. noun A black person.
8. noun ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “spade (n.2)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Similar words

shovel bucket poker dustpan dig scoop broom spike sword pike

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Word family

spaded spadeful spadefuls spader spaders spades spading