spade
/speɪ̯d/ nom B2En français : bêche, pelle
- 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 cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
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Dans la bibliothèque
A wooden spade they gave to me
(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
It always kind of gives me a thrill to see them ugly white grubs that spade up in the cucumber beds.
He called them to his bedside and said, “My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards.” The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land.
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