Spade

[speɪd] or [sped]

Definition

(noun.) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.

(noun.) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; 'she led a low spade'; 'spades were trumps'.

(verb.) dig (up) with a spade; 'I spade compost into the flower beds'.

Typed by Debora--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A hart or stag three years old.

(n.) A castrated man or beast.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

(n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

(v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Typist: Rodger

Definition

n. a broad blade of iron with a handle used for digging: a playing-card of one of the two black suits shaped like a heart with a triangular handle.—v.t. to dig with a spade.—ns. Spade′-bone the scapula; Spade′-foot a scaphiopod or spade-footed toad; Spade′ful as much as a spade will hold; Spade′-guin′ea a guinea coined 1787-99 so called from the shield on the reverse side having the shape of the spade in playing-cards.—Call a spade a spade to call things by their plain names without softening: to speak out plainly.

n. a eunuch: a gelding.—Also Spā′do.

Edited by Bryan

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work to complete, which will give you much annoyance in superintending. If you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies which will bring you grief and misfortune. For a gambler to dream that spades are trumps, means that unfortunate deals will deplete his winnings.

Checker: Wilbur

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