Shovel vs. Spade

Shovelnoun

A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

Shovelnoun

(US) A spade.

Shovelverb

To move materials with a shovel.

Shovelverb

To move with a shoveling motion.

Shovelnoun

An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.

Shovelverb

To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

Shovelverb

To gather up as with a shovel.

Shovelnoun

a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

Shovelnoun

the quantity a shovel can hold

Shovelnoun

a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

Shovelnoun

a machine for excavating

Shovelverb

dig with or as if with a shovel;

Shovel

A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle.

Spadenoun

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.

Spadenoun

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

Spadenoun

A black person.

Spadenoun

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spadenoun

A hart or stag three years old.

Spadenoun

A castrated man or animal.

Spadeverb

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

Spadenoun

A hart or stag three years old.

Spadenoun

A castrated man or beast.

Spadenoun

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.

Spadenoun

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

Spadenoun

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spadeverb

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

Spadenoun

a playing card in the major suit of spades

Spadenoun

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

Spadenoun

(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;

Spadeverb

dig (up) with a spade;

Spade

A spade is a tool primarily for digging, comprising a blade – typically stunted and less curved than that of a shovel – and a long handle. Early spades were made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades).