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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 spade [spād] (design engineering) A shovellike implement with a flat oblong blade; used for turning soil by pushing against the blade with the foot.
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Back in 1921, when the nation was searching for the proper way to remember those who died in World War 1, First Lady Florence Harding took a shovel and threw the first spadeful of dirt for a memorial tree planting at AMERICAN FORESTS' headquarters at the time on 16th Street NW in Washington, DC. There are 8 million stories in the Naked City--and at least that many in a spadeful of dirt. Spectators at the ground-breaking can first watch university officials use a ceremonial, gold, three-handled shovel to dig up the first spadeful of earth. |
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