Usually means: Tool for digging and moving soil.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spade: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spade, spade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spade, spade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spade: Vocabulary.com
  6. spade: Wordnik
  7. spade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Spade, spade: Wiktionary
  9. spade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spade: Dictionary.com
  13. spade (1), spade (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spade (disambiguation), Spade (political party), Spade, The Spade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spade: Rhymezone
  19. spade, spade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Spade: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. spade: Free Dictionary
  23. spade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spade: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Spade: World Wide Words
  26. spade: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPADE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. spade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPADE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. spade: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spade (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spade, spade: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See spaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
noun:  (furry fandom, vulgar) The vulva of canine species.
verb:  To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
noun:  (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
noun:  (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
noun:  A surname.

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