spades

/speɪdz/

IPA: /S P EY1 D Z/

noun
  1. 1

    A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.

  2. 2

    A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

    I've got only one spade in my hand.

  3. 3

    A black person.

  4. 4

    A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

verb
  1. 1

    To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

noun
  1. 1

    A hart or stag three years old.

  2. 2

    A castrated man or animal.

noun
  1. 1

    One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

  2. 2

    A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spade, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spades