spade
Definitions
- 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 ♠.
- 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 surname.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade
- To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting
- A playing card marked with the symbol ♠
Equivalents
Examples
“'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.'”
“"[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."”
“I've got only one spade in my hand.”
“And as for a divorce, I know⟳ plenty spades right here in Harlem get⟳ married any time they want⟳ to.”
“Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".”
“It had even gotten to the point⟳ that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like⟳ dig⟳ and baby and scarf and split⟳ and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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