spade

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Etymology [edit]

From Old English spadu, spada, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spathē, blade), Hittite išpatar (spear).

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Noun [edit]

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.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
  2. A playing card marked with the symbol .
    I've got only one spade in my hand.
  3. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
  4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

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Verb [edit]

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.
  2. (videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.

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Finnish [edit]

Noun [edit]

spade

  1. (military slang) field cook

Italian [edit]

Noun [edit]

spade f

  1. Plural form of spada

Norwegian [edit]

Noun [edit]

spade m

  1. spade (tool)

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Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

spade c

  1. a spade (tool)

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