Definition of Spade

a garden shovel

Examples of Spade in a sentence

Digging into the dirt with the spade, the gardener made neat rows to hold his petunias.  🔊

The police realized that the suspect was the killer when they found a receipt for the spade he bought at the hardware store.  🔊

The early spade was made of animal bone and was used to dig ditches for irrigation.  🔊

Equipped with a spade and some bulbs, the planter used the scoop to tillage into the earth.  🔊

In ancient China, the blade of a spade was used not for digging but for currency.  🔊

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