spades
/speɪdz/
noun
- 1
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.
- 2
A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
“I've got only one spade in my hand.”
- 3
A black person.
- 4
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
verb
- 1
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
noun
- 1
A hart or stag three years old.
- 2
A castrated man or animal.
noun
- 1
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
- 2
A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
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