A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials. / A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

A hart or stag three years old. / A castrated man or animal.

plural of spade

One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠. / A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spade

(idiomatic) In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint. / (idiomatic) Beyond doubt.

The amount held or moved by a spade at once.

plural of spadeful

simple past tense and past participle of spade