Spade

Noun

 * 1) 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) * 1898,, Chapter 4
 * '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.'
 * 1) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
 * I've got only one spade in my hand.
 * 1)  A black person.

Related terms

 * in spades
 * call a spade a spade

Verb

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

Thesaurus
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, ace, backset, bail, best bower, black, black man, blackfellow, bore, bower, boy, brown man, bucket, burrhead, burrow, cards, clubs, colored person, coon, cultivate, culture, cup, cut, darky, decant, deck, delve, deuce, diamonds, dig, dig out, dike, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dredge, dress, drill, drive, dummy, excavate, face cards, fallow, fertilize, flush, force, fork, full house, furrow, gook, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, hand, harrow, hearts, hoe, honky, jack, jigaboo, joker, jungle bunny, king, knave, ladle, left bower, list, lower, mine, mulch, nigger, niggra, ofay, pack, pair, paleface, picture cards, playing cards, plow, pour, prune, pygmy, quarry, queen, rake, red man, redskin, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shovel, singleton, sink, slant-eye, spades, spoon, straight, the Man, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, trench, trey, trick, trough, trump, tunnel, weed, weed out, white, white man, whitey, work, yellow man

Etymology
From spadu:, spada:, of  origin. Cognate with Old Frisian spada:, Old Saxon spado:, German Spaten:. Ultimately from, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη:, Hittite undefined:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: graaf
 * Albanian: ,
 * Azeri: kürək
 * Bashkir:
 * Belarusian: рыдлёўка, rydloŭka
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chechen: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鏟, 铲, 鏟子, 铲子, 鍬, 锹, 鐵鍬, 铁锹, 鐵杴, 铁锨, 鍤, 锸
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:, ašov
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: schop, spade , schup ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: pala
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, スペード
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh: күрек


 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 가래
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: күрөк
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: ашов
 * Maltese: mgħażqa
 * Mongolian: хүрз
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: штыковая лопата, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spaid
 * Shor: ,
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: köräk
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: kurak, belkurak,
 * Yakut:


 * Albanian: maç
 * Arabic: (al-bastūni)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 揆扇 (kuí shàn)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: schoppen, schuppen
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Pik
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: spaði
 * Interlingua: spada


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: spadi
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pică
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: spaid
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఇస్పేటు (ispaeTu)
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: чернилка
 * Hungarian: negró, feka
 * Icelandic:, , niggari, svertingjahundur,
 * Interlingua: negro


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cioroi
 * Spanish: ,


 * : 鍬, 锹 (qiāo), 黑桃 (hēi táo)
 * : picca
 * : 삽 (sap)
 * : pala

Anagrams

 * adeps

Noun

 * 1)  field cook

Noun
spade



Noun

 * 1) spade (tool)

Noun

 * 1) spade tool