Crossword-Solution: SPADE 5 letters, 271 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Spade n. A hart or stag three years old.
Spade n. A castrated man or beast.
Spade n. 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 n. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more
figures resembling a spade.
Spade n. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Spade v. t. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land,
with a spade.

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Word Anagrams
SPADE anagram ADEPS, DEPAS, PASDE, SPAED

We have 271 clues for the answer “SPADE”

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"Black bird" pursuer of fiction 1 answer
"Maltese Falcon" detective 1 answer
"Maltese Falcon" hero 1 answer
"They Can Only Hang You Once" sleuth 1 answer
1 of 13 in a deck 1 answer
A deck king 1 answer
Aid for breaking new ground 1 answer
Aid for making a sand castle 1 answer
Archer's partner 1 answer
Better than a heart. 1 answer
Black Lady's symbol. 1 answer
Black jack, sometimes 1 answer
Black playing card 1 answer
Black symbol. 1 answer
Black-suit item 1 answer
Bogart detective role 1 answer
Bogart or Cortez role 1 answer
Bogart part 1 answer
Bogart role in The Maltese Falcon 1 answer
Bogart role of 1941 1 answer
Bogart sleuth 1 answer
Bogart's "Maltese Falcon" role 1 answer
Bogart's sleuth 1 answer
Bogart's sleuth Sam 1 answer
Bridge column symbol 1 answer
Call it by its right name 1 answer
Card in a black suit 1 answer
Card of a certain suit 1 answer
Card with black pips 1 answer
Card-suit symbol 1 answer
Celebrated private eye. 1 answer
Certain black card 1 answer
Certain card suit 1 answer
Certain king 1 answer
Certain playing card 1 answer
Club counterpart 1 answer
Couture's Kate 1 answer
Dark suit card 1 answer
Dark suit item 1 answer
David of "Just Shoot Me" 1 answer
David of "The Benchwarmers" 1 answer
Delving tool 1 answer
Designer Kate nee Brosnahan 1 answer
Detective Sam 1 answer
Digging implement 1 answer
Ditch digger's tool 1 answer
Ditch maker 1 answer
Ditchdigger's tool 1 answer
Eggscavating tool 1 answer
Entrenching tool 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SPADE (5)

Because she knew Frank was surly about doing little things to help his wife, she was always sending Emil over to spade or plant or carpenter for Marie.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
When he returned he carried a spade and a lantern, the light of which he directed for a few moments upon the tomb, whilst he read the inscription.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
When Thea entered the gate, her professor leaned his spade against the white post that supported the turreted dove-house, and wiped his face with his shirt-sleeve; someway he never managed to have a handkerchief about him.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with SPADE (3)

Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
Jeaniene Frost Halfway to the Grave
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
T.H. White The Once and Future King
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, KC Star, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 397 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).