Spade and Tool

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Spade noun - A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.

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Tool and spade are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tool" instead a noun "Spade".

Nearby Words: spaded, spadeful, spading, spader

Tool noun - An article intended for use in work.

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Spade and tool are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Spade" instead a noun "Tool".

Nearby Words: tooling, toolbox, toolbar, toolroom

In the free online FPS Ace Of Spades the spade can be used as a melee weapon as well as a entrenching tool.

Source: Shovel Strike
Shovel Strike: The spade can be used as a deadly melee weapon as well as a entrenching tool.

Source: Video Game / Ace of Spades
Infantrymen are taught all manner of methods for mayhem, from bare-handed to edged weapons to the use of the rifle and fixed bayonet; US infantrymen, and probably many others, are even taught to use the entrenching tool—the infantryman's small folding spade—as a battle-axe in melee combat.

Source: Pistol-Whipping

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