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How to pronounce spade in English?

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Type Words
Type of playing card


she led a low spade.
spades were trumps.
Type Words
Type of hand shovel
Has types ditch spade, garden spade, long-handled spade
Type Words
Type of cut into, delve, dig, turn over
Has types ridge


I spade compost into the flower beds.

Examples of spade

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West led a low spade, covered by the nine and ace and ruffed in the closed hand.
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West led a low spade and declarer's first move was to allow East's queen to win.
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Note that four spades would have made, losing one spade, one heart and one club.
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So West cashed the spade ace and led the spade three to give his partner a ruff.
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South won with her ace, played a heart to dummy's king and cashed the spade ace.
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Declarer ruffed, cashed the ace and king of spades and then ruffed a spade high.
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A normal auction saw Watson become declarer at four hearts, and a spade was led.
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Spade Cooley and Tex Williams also had very popular bands and appeared in films.
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Ruff a spade, cross to the ace of hearts and trump the table's remaining spade.
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  • A playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"
  • Dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
  • A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
  • Nigger: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
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  • Tarka the Otter is a film released in 1979, based on the novel of the same name by Henry Williamson. Tarka the Otter was voted 98th in Channel 4u2019s poll of the 100 Greatest Family Films.
  • (Spades (game)) Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s, in which the object is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they bid on before play began. ...
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