Definitions
Digging tool with a flat blade, or one suit in playing cards.
Word origin
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
Used in a sentence
“'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'”
“"[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."”
“I've got only one spade in my hand.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Garden digging tool”5 letters
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