spades

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. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

   I've got only one spade in my hand.

3. A black person.
4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

verb

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

1. A hart or stag three years old.
2. A castrated man or animal.

1. One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
2. A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.