spade
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Small spade for clay soil; the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil A spade () is a tool primarily for digging, consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel.
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A spade is a digging tool made up of a long handle attached to a narrow, flat blade, designed to be different from the wider shovel. It matters because its specific shape makes it well-suited for digging work, particularly in different soil types like clay, sandy, and loamy soil.
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thumb|upright|Small spade for clay soil; the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil A spade () is a tool primarily for digging, consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel.
==Terminology== English spade is from Old English ' (f.) or ' (m.). The same word is found in Old Frisian ' and Old Saxon '. High German '' only appears in Early Modern German, probably loaned from Low German. In the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway the word is spade as well. Other Scandinavian forms are in turn loaned from German. The term may thus not originate in Common Germanic and appears to be a North Sea Germanic innovation or loaned. Closely related is Greek : , whence Latin .