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A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.

A flat spade used in peat cutting.

Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.

A black, leaf-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

A playing card with this figure.

Also spades (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

To dig or cut with a spade.

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.

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

A black person.

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

A hart or stag three years old.

A castrated man or animal.

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

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.

A playing card in the major suit of spades

A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;

Dig (up) with a spade;