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spade1 1. a tool for digging, typically consisting of a flat rectangular steel blade attached to a long wooden handle 2. a. an object or part resembling a spade in shape b. (as modifier): a spade beard 3. a type of oar blade that is comparatively broad and short 4. a cutting tool for stripping the blubber from a whale or skin from a carcass spade2 a. the black symbol on a playing card resembling a heart-shaped leaf with a stem b. a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl.) the suit of cards so marked, usually the highest ranking of the four
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Against the last stripe of the green-gold sunset he saw a black human silhouette; a man in a chimney-pot hat, with a big spade over his shoulder. One day when I rode over to the Shimerdas' I found Antonia starting off on foot for Russian Peter's house, to borrow a spade Ambrosch needed. AN Undertaker Who Was a Member of a Trust saw a Man Leaning on a Spade, and asked him why he was not at work. |
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