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bêche
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Spade
- (n.) A hart or stag three years old.
- (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a 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.
- (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
- (n.) A castrated man or beast.
- (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Synonyms:
Coon, Nigger,
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• Spadefish
- (n.) An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
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• Spadefoot
- (n.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.
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constipate, simulation, shrimp, indignation, manse, proem, prima donna, propound, distorted, applause, encampment, formula, electronics, tan, balancer, nightingale, miasma, reunion, plait, inconceivable, purslane, take, equal, backbite, cite, dimensions, malarious, activity, relief, urge, stern, cast on, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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