 |
spade
Found in thesaurus: playing card, hand shovel, blackamoor, negro, black, black person, negroid, delve, cut into, turn over, dig
| Babylon English | Download this dictionary |
spade
n.
long-handled digging tool with a narrow iron blade that is pressed into the ground with the foot; black figure in the shape of an upside down heart with a short stem that is used on playing cards; playing card marked with a spade
v.
dig or remove with a spade
| English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia | Download this dictionary |
Spade
A spade is a tool primarily for digging or removing earth and fixing soil. Early spades were made of riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the introduction of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth, with picks being required to break up the soil in addition to a spade for moving the dirt. With a metal tip, a spade can both break and move the earth in most situations, increasing efficiency.
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
| WordNet 2.0 | Download this dictionary |
spade
Noun
1. a playing card in the major suit of spades
(hypernym) playing card
(member-holonym) major suit
2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
(hypernym) hand shovel
(hyponym) ditch spade, long-handled spade
3. (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
(synonym) nigger, nigga, coon, jigaboo, nigra
(hypernym) Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
(classification) ethnic slur
Verb
1. dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
(hypernym) dig, delve, cut into, turn over
(hyponym) ridge
| Babylon Italian-English | Download this dictionary |
spada
nf.
sword, blade, brand
| Babylon Dutch-English | Download this dictionary |
spade
adj.
late
spade (de)
n.
spade
