spades
/speɪdz/ noun B2- One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
- A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
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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.
(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.
The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.
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