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.
some implement, piece, or part resembling this.
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.
to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes followed by up):
Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers.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.
in spades, Informal.
in the extreme; positively:
He's a hypocrite, in spades.
without restraint; outspokenly:
I told him what I thought, in spades.
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.some implement, piece, or part resembling this.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.to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes followed by up):Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers.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.in spades, Informal.in the extreme; positively:He's a hypocrite, in spades.without restraint; outspokenly:I told him what I thought, in spades.
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