ace, burrhead, deck, dress, furrow, jigaboo, niggra, queen, scrape, till the soil, work
Definitionn. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
Last update: June 10, 2015
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We use spade to dig pits. [Please select]
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Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he took Stubb's long spade--still remaining there after the whale's Decapitation--and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head. [Please select]
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So hand me up the spade, my dear, I'll mount the barn, the roof to clear.' [Please select]
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Remember we're plain, wholesome, straightforward Anglo-Saxons, who play games and say what we mean, and call a spade a spade and have done with it.' [Please select]
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Apollo made small holes with his spade, and each dead 'un in his small coffin was returned to mother earth.' [Please select]
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The man, without a word, lifted a portion of the straw in the cart, and took out a spade. [Please select]
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Having thus ended the banquet, he went into an outhouse, seized a spade, and quitted Athens for ever. [Please select]
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One day, when he was digging for roots near the shore, his spade struck gold. [Please select]
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You two boys may take a pick and a spade and help Matt get his box out. [Please select]
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A few rapid and accurate strokes with the pick loosened the hard earth, and Apple and Matt quickly spaded it out. [Please select]
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Pretty soon Bert again dropped the spade he had taken up and said: "There, Freddie, you dig awhile." [Please select]
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