The word spade is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a tool with a flat metal blade, or as a verb to mean to dig with a spade. Example sentence: I used a spade to break up the soil in my garden.
On Eighty-Three Different Questions, q. 46, 2, translated by P. V. Spade in Spade 1985 (Other Internet Resources), p. 383, from Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus.
One email began in a moderate tone – "Let us hope the public spending cuts in higher education put a speedy end to your career" – before descending into bigotry: "Perhaps that money-lending Jew will find you a job in gratitude after you did his spade work".
Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
"In times of uncertainty, the idea of an old-fashioned bucket and spade holiday becomes very appealing.
Like Hawke himself, Bond was an ocker's ocker, a man who called a spade a bloody shovel, and who paraded his earthiness at every opportunity.
"People think that I'm bound to be one of those bigoted northern men: a poof's a poof, a spade's a spade and all that.
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Bornholm used to be a bucket-and-spade place, where almost everyone in Denmark decamped to in the summer; the rich to their summerhouses and the elegant "Badehotels" on the north coast, everyone else to the caravan parks and sandy beaches of the south.
Ms Stewart is a desperately hard worker, who thinks nothing of rising at dawn to feed 120 chickens and double-spade the flowerbeds.
It's unlikely that Sam Spade would have selected Karl Popper for his bedtime reading or decorated his room in a "pretty faithful reconstruction of the business premises of an expensive whore of the Directoire period," as Mortdecai does.There's hope for Bonfiglioli, however.
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