Spade vs Spake - What's the difference?
spade | spake |
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.
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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.
(archaic) (speak)
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As adjectives the difference between spade and spake
is that spade is while spake is (obsolete) quiet; tame.As a verb spake is
(archaic) (speak).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.
Verb
(spad)Etymology 2
Compare spay, noun.Alternative forms
* spaid * spayadeAnagrams
* ----spake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spake, spak, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) spak, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.