Spade \Spade\ (sp[=a]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Spading.]
   To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with
   a spade.
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	Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. Spay, n.]
   1. (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also
      spaid, spayade.]
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   2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
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	Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. spaed; spada; akin to D. spade, G.
   spaten, Icel. spa[eth]i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a
   spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf.
   Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.]
   1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting
      usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron,
      with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and
      pickax armed." --Milton.
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   2. [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because
      these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword.
      Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology
      above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one
      or more figures resembling a spade.
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            "Let spades be trumps!" she said.     --Pope.
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   3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
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   Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be
      used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.

   Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in
      which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle
      joint, under Knuckle.
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	spade
    n 1: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black
         figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"
    2: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with
       the foot
    3: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person;
       "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger,
       nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra]
    v 1: dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower
         beds"

	

	138 Moby Thesaurus words for "spade":
   American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian,
   Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito,
   Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, ace, backset, bail, best bower,
   black, black man, blackfellow, bore, bower, boy, brown man, bucket,
   burrhead, burrow, cards, clubs, colored person, coon, cultivate,
   culture, cup, cut, darky, decant, deck, delve, deuce, diamonds,
   dig, dig out, dike, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dredge, dress,
   drill, drive, dummy, excavate, face cards, fallow, fertilize,
   flush, force, fork, full house, furrow, gook, gouge, gouge out,
   groove, grub, hand, harrow, hearts, hoe, honky, jack, jigaboo,
   joker, jungle bunny, king, knave, ladle, left bower, list, lower,
   mine, mulch, nigger, niggra, ofay, pack, pair, paleface,
   picture cards, playing cards, plow, pour, prune, pygmy, quarry,
   queen, rake, red man, redskin, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff,
   sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shovel,
   singleton, sink, slant-eye, spades, spoon, straight, the Man, thin,
   thin out, till, till the soil, trench, trey, trick, trough, trump,
   tunnel, weed, weed out, white, white man, whitey, work,
   yellow man

	

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	Spade, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
   Population (2000):    100
   Housing Units (2000): 49
   Land area (2000):     1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            69380
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             33.918381 N, 102.149654 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Spade, TX
    Spade