spade
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- noun
- /speɪd/
:
pala
- He picked up his spade and began to dig in the flowerbed.
The Lenten heat has our neighbor from the Azores out with his spade.
- The Lenten heat has our neighbor from the Azores out with his spade.
- No, let's let's call a buck a buck spade a spade.
- Leave barn and buyer, Leave Ken and cot, lay by the bloodless spade.
- I think I heard that like the tip of a of a human penis is shaped like a spade shovel.
Examples
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Hamish dismounts too, with the spade he used to dig up the old grave.
Fiction book (1995) -
Delores and I, each armed with a spade, drop to our knees and start to dig.
Fiction book (1997) -
We need a spade if we're gonna dig a pit.
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Then she stared, not at the sky, but back at those spade marks in the earth.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then, moving inland a little farther and looking carefully about, he struck in his spade several times without result.
Academic text (1996) -
The French soldier leans on a spade that he's been using to bury the dead.
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Alex leans against the spade in a shallow pit that he has dug.
Fiction book (1994) -
I clutch the spade, thread my way through the pits and craters I have made.
Fiction book (1995) -
Billie picked out a heavy garden spade, shiny as chrome, its handle clean pine lacquered to a high sheen.
Fiction book (1991) -
We need a spade to dig a hole for the new tree in the garden.
Synonyms
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A tool with a wide blade and handle for digging and moving soil or snow
A hand tool with a flat rectangular blade for digging and edging soil
A spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches
A digging tool with a long handle for reaching deep, narrow holes
A small narrow shovel soldiers use to dig trenches
Idioms
- Informal
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To speak clearly and honestly about something even if it is unpleasant
Compounds
- Specialized
A flat drill bit with a pointed center and two sharp sides for making large holes in wood
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Spade The word spade for the digging tool originally meant a 'flat blade', which fits the tool's flat, usually rectangular metal part used to cut and lift earth.