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Spade vs. Sword — What's the Difference?

Spade vs. Sword — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Spade and Sword

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Spade

A spade is a tool primarily for digging, comprising a blade – typically stunted and less curved than that of a shovel – and a long handle. Early spades were made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades).

Sword

A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved.

Spade

A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.

Sword

A handheld weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.

Spade

Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.
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Sword

An instrument of death or destruction.

Spade

A black, leaf-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

Sword

The use of force, as in war.

Spade

A playing card with this figure.

Sword

Military power or jurisdiction.

Spade

Also spades (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

Sword

(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.

Spade

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

Sword

(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

Spade

To dig or cut with a spade.

Sword

(tarot) A card of this suit.

Spade

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.

Sword

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Spade

A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
I've got only one spade in my hand.

Sword

(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

Spade

A black person.

Sword

To stab or cut with a sword

Spade

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Sword

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

Spade

A hart or stag three years old.

Sword

Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain.
She quits the balance, and resigns the sword.

Spade

A castrated man or animal.

Sword

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Spade

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Sword

The military power of a country.
He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law.

Spade

A hart or stag three years old.

Sword

One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Spade

A castrated man or beast.

Sword

A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Spade

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.

Spade

One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
"Let spades be trumps!" she said.

Spade

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spade

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Spade

A playing card in the major suit of spades

Spade

A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot

Spade

(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;
Only a Black can call another Black a nigga

Spade

Dig (up) with a spade;
I spade compost into the flower beds

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