noun. A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.

noun. Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.

transitive verb. To dig or cut with a spade.

idiom. (call a spade a spade) To speak plainly and forthrightly.

noun. undefined

noun. A black, leaf-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

noun. A playing card with this figure.

noun. The suit of cards represented by this figure.

noun. Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

idiom. (in spades) To a considerable degree.

To dig or cut with a spade; dig up (the ground) by menns of a spade.

In whaling, to use the boat-spade on, as a whale; cut the tendons of the flukes of; hamstring.

noun. A playing-card of one of the two black suits of a pack, the other being clubs.

noun. A tool for digging and cutting the ground, having a rather thick iron blade, usually flat, so formed that its terminal edge (either straight or curved) may be pressed into the ground or other resisting substance with one foot, and a handle, usually with a crosspiece at the top, to be grasped by both hands.

noun. A tool of soft iron used with diamond-powder by cameo-cutters in finishing.

noun. In whaling, a large chisel-like implement used on blubber or bone in cutting-in. See phrases following.

noun. In herpetology, a formation on the foot of some toads with which they dig. See spade-fool.

noun. In artillery, a thick metal projection at the end of the trail of a field-gun carriage, which is forced into the ground by the recoil and tends to keep the carriage in the same position for subsequent rounds.

noun. An emasculated person; a eunuch.

noun. An emasculated animal; a gelding.

noun. A hart or stag three years old.

noun. A castrated man or beast.

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

noun. 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.

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

noun. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

noun. a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.

noun. the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

noun. 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.

noun. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

noun. A black person.

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

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

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

noun. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person

noun. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it

verb. dig (up) with a spade

"I say he called it as he saw it, a spade is a spade (no pun intended) He is human and to have an opinion is just that, an opinion."

boat-spade  bone-spade  cutting-spade  half-round spade  shoeing of a spade  

call a spade a spade  in spades  

spaded  spading  

Negro  Negroid  black  black person  blackamoor  

Blade  Cade  Crusade  Dade  Jade  

axe  broom  bucket  chisel  crowbar  

American Indian  Amerind  Australian aborigine  Bushman  Caucasian  

spaid  spayade  

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