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spayde

spayde is the obsolete form of spade.

Meaning of spade

Noun (1)

spade (plural spades)

  1. 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.
    • '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.'[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC
  2. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
  3. A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.

Noun (2)

spade (plural spades)

  1. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
    • I've got only one spade in my hand.
  2. (ethnic, offensive, slur) A black person.
    • And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.1929, Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, New York: Collier Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 161

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Forms of spayde

pluralspaydes

Questions about spayde

What is spayde the obsolete form of?
Spayde is the obsolete form of spade.

Words near spayde in the dictionary

  1. spayard
  2. spayards
  3. spayart
  4. spayarts
  5. Spayd
  6. spayde
  7. spaydes
  8. Spayds
  9. spaye
  10. spayed
  11. Spayen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spayde (page history and authors); spade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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