Spade vs. Hoe

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).

Hoenoun

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

Hoenoun

The horned or piked dogfish.

Hoenoun

alternative spelling of ho.

Hoenoun

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Hoeverb

(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

Hoeverb

(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Hoeverb

alternative spelling of ho.

Hoenoun

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

Hoenoun

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

Hoeverb

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.

Hoeverb

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Hoenoun

a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

Hoeverb

dig with a hoe;