Definition of spade

"spade" in the noun sense

1. spade

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. spade

a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

"spade" in the verb sense

1. spade

dig (up) with a spade

"I spade compost into the flower beds"

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Quotations for spade

Calling a fig a fig, and a spade a spade. [ Plut ]

Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;
From human mould we reap our daily bread. [ Young ]

He would find waters with the first stroke of his spade. [ Proverb ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

spade in Scrabble®

The word spade is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters spade:

SPADE
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word spade

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In spade

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spade in Words With Friends™

The word spade is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters spade:

SPADE
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word spade

SPADE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In spade

SPADE
(51)
PADS
(48)
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(45)
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(39)
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(36)
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Words containing the sequence spade

Words with spade in them (3 words)

Words that end with spade (2 words)

Word Growth involving spade

Shorter words in spade

ad pad

pa pad

pa spa

Longer words containing spade

respade respaded

respade respades

spaded respaded

spadefish spadefishes

spadeful spadefuls

spadelike

spader spaders

spades respades

spadework