Spade vs Spado - What's the difference?
spade | spado |
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.
* 1898 , , Chapter 4
A playing card marked with the symbol .
(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
(videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
*1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.9:
*:an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art [...].
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As nouns the difference between spade and spado
is that spade is 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 while spado is someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.As a verb spade
is to turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.spade
English
(wikipedia spade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) spadu, spada, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade .'
- I've got only one spade in my hand.