| Word | Spade |
|---|---|
| Meaning | a garden shovel |
| Example 1 | Digging into the dirt with the spade, the gardener made neat rows to hold his petunias. |
| Example 2 | The police realized that the suspect was the killer when they found a receipt for the spade he bought at the hardware store. |
| Example 3 | The early spade was made of animal bone and was used to dig ditches for irrigation. |
| Example 4 | Equipped with a spade and some bulbs, the planter used the scoop to tillage into the earth. |
| Example 5 | In ancient China, the blade of a spade was used not for digging but for currency. |
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