Spade vs Spede - What's the difference?
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As an adjective spade is . As a noun spede is .
spade Etymology 1
From (etyl) spadu, spada, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
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
- '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 .'
A playing card marked with the symbol .
- I've got only one spade in my hand.
(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Related terms
* in spades
* call a spade a spade
Verb
(spad)
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.
Etymology 2
Compare spay, noun.
Alternative forms
* spaid
* spayade
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spede English
Noun
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* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Those capitaines whiche come to faight a field, cannot stand behind a wal, or behind bankes, nor where thei maie not be reached: therfore it is mete for them, seyng thei cannot finde a waie to defende them, to finde some mean, by the whiche thei maie be least hurte: nor thei cannot finde any other waie, then to prevente it quickly: the waie to prevent it, is to go to finde it out of hande, and hastely, not at leasure and in a heape: for that through spede , the blowe is not suffered to bee redoubled, and by the thinnesse, lesse nomber of menne maie be hurt. }}
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