spade
/speɪ̯d/ verb C2- To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
- To move with a spade, or as with a spade.
He/she/it spades · Past spaded · Past participle spaded · -ing form spading
Verb forms
- Base form
- spade
- He/she/it
- spades
- Past
- spaded
- Past participle
- spaded
- -ing form
- spading
From the library
A wooden spade they gave to me
It always kind of gives me a thrill to see them ugly white grubs that spade up in the cucumber beds.
“The spade, perhaps.”
An old man, who was digging busily at one of the beds, stuck his spade in the earth, and approached, cap in hand, striving to conceal a quid of tobacco he had just thrust into his cheek.
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