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   spade

   /speɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.
   • ▪ a tool shaped like a spade but used for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale.
   • ▪ shaped like a spade: "a spade bit"

   verb

   • 1. dig over (ground) with a spade: "while spading the soil, I think of the flowers"
   • ▪ move (soil) with a spade: "earth is spaded into the grave"

   Word Origin Old Englishspadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē ‘blade, paddle’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. spadeful noun

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