[speyd] 
noun, verb, spad⋅ed, spad⋅ing.| 1. | a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel. |
| 2. | some implement, piece, or part resembling this. |
| 3. | a sharp projection on the bottom of a gun trail, designed to dig into the earth to restrict backward movement of the carriage during recoil. |
| 4. | to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes fol. by up): Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers. |
| 5. | call a spade a spade, to call something by its real name; be candidly explicit; speak plainly or bluntly: To call a spade a spade, he's a crook. |
| 6. | in spades, Informal.
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[speyd] ,| 1. | a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards. |
| 2. | a card of the suit bearing such figures. |
| 3. | spades,
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| 4. | Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black person. |
| spade 1 (spād) n.
To dig or cut with a spade. [Middle English, from Old English spadu.] spad'er n. |
| spade 2 (spād) n.
[Italian spade, pl. of spada, card suit, from Latin spatha, sword, broad-bladed stirrer, from Greek spathē, broad blade.] |
"The invitations to the musicale came sliding in by pairs and threes and spade flushes." [O.Henry, "Cabbages & Kings," 1904]Derogatory meaning "black person" is 1928, from the color of the playing card symbol.
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