Spade vs. Flaughter

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.

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

Example: ‘I've got only one spade in my hand.’;

A black person.

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

A hart or stag three years old.

A castrated man or animal.

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

A hart or stag three years old.

A castrated man or beast.

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.

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

Example: ‘"Let spades be trumps!" she said.’;

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

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

a playing card in the major suit of spades

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

(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;

Example: ‘only a Black can call another Black a nigga’;

dig (up) with a spade;

Example: ‘I spade compost into the flower beds’;

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).

A flat spade used in peat cutting.