spade

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams 2 Finnish 2.1 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Norwegian 4.1 Noun 5 Swedish 5.1 Noun

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From Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spə-dh-, whence also Greek σπάθη (spáthē) ‘blade’, Hittite išpatar ‘spear’.

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  Rhymes: -eɪd

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spade (plural spades)

1. 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.
2. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

   I've got only one spade in my hand.

3. (offensive) A black person.

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• in spades

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to spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

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

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• Anagrams of adeps

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spade

1. (military slang) Field cook.

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spade f.

1. Plural of spada.

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spade m. (definite singular spaden; indefinite plural spader; definite plural spadene)

1. spade (tool).

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spade c.

Inflection for spade	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	spade	spaden	spadar	spadarna
Possessive form	spades	spadens	spadars	spadarnas

1. spade (tool).