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spade

n. மண்வாரி, மண்வெட்டி, மண்வாரி அலகு வெட்டாழம், மண்வாரி போன்ற கருவி, கொழுவெட்டு, திமிங்கிலக் கொழுப்பை வெட்டி எடுக்கும் வெட்டுக்கத்தி, சீட்டு வகையில் ஒன்று கருகிற மண்வாரிச்சின்னச் சீட்டு,(வினை.) மண்வாரியால் வெட்டு, கொழுவெட்டால் திமிங்கிலக் கொழுப்பைவெட்டியெடு.


Spade, n. Etym: [Cf. Spay, n.] 1. (Zoöl.) Defn: A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.] 2. Etym: [Cf. L. spado.] Defn: A castrated man or beast. Spade, n. Etym: [AS. spæd; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spaedhi, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.] 1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton. 2. Etym: [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] Defn: One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. "Let spades be trumps!" she said. Pope. 3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle. Spade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.] Defn: To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.


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