What does spade mean in crosswords?

spade means: Digging tool with a flat blade, or one suit in playing cards.

Which crossword clues can have spade as the answer?

Possible clues for spade include "Garden digging tool".

spade is also used as a crossword clue. The answer is often shovel, 6 letters.

Word entry · 5 letters

Best crossword clue

"Garden digging tool"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /speɪ̯d/Part of speech verb, nounSorted adepsStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word

1S2P3A4D5E

Is this your crossword clue?

"spade" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often shovel (6 letters).

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.

“'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.”

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01“Garden digging tool”5 letters

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