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Spade

speɪd

Spade definitions

noun

Inflections:

spade spades

a tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.

Synonyms:
oar scull sweep blade spoon spade
- a tool shaped like a spade but used for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale
- shaped like a spade
  
  "a spade bit"

verb

Inflections:

spade spaded spades spading

dig over (ground) with a spade

"while spading the soil, I think of the flowers"

Synonyms:
cultivate till harrow plough turn over work break up spade
- move (soil) with a spade
  
  "earth is spaded into the grave"