Dictionary Entry
spade
spade is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hart or stag three years old. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A hart or stag three years old.
- 2noun
A castrated man or beast.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
- 5noun
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- 6transitive verb
To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
- 7noun
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- 8noun
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
"she led a low spade"
"spades were trumps"
- 9noun
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
"only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
- 10verb
dig (up) with a spade
"I spade compost into the flower beds"
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