spade 的 2 个定义
- a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- some implement, piece, or part resembling this.
- a sharp projection on the bottom of a gun trail, designed to dig into the earth to restrict backward movement of the carriage during recoil.
spad·ed, spad·ing.
- to dig, cut, or remove with a spade: Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers.
spade 近义词
tool
更多spade例句
- As a company that is beholden to stockholders, Kate Spade usually lags, not leads trends.
- Because it is, as Spade and Wilse say, a “tool of social control used by governments to regulate sexuality and family formation.”
- But then we might have been deprived of Nick and Nora, Sam Spade and the Continental Op.
- But there are four other published Spade stories out there, and it would be nice to have them between covers in one volume.
- The administration refused to budge on calling a spade a spade.
- His strong legs and his broad, spade-like feet helped to make him a fine swimmer.
- The labour of the spade and of the loom, and the petty gains of trade, he contemptuously abandoned to men of a lower caste.
- When a spade declaration has been made by dummy, one trump less is necessary and the doubler need not be on the declarer's left.
- Except in the case of a spade declaration, cases in which redoubling is justifiable are very rare.
- A spade declaration by the dealer can be doubled with even less strength.