spade

In open speaking, to call a spade a spade is to give a man his real character. The phrase is old and still in use.

← sow × spadroon →

Spade
·noun A castrated man or beast. II. Spade ·noun A hart or stag three years old. III. Spade ·noun A...

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Royal spade
·add. ·- A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the s...

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spade-press
n. a make-shift wool-press inwhich the fleeces are rammed down with a spade. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris