Spade
A spade — for digging in earth, or the dark suit of cards — often touches annoying work to superintend, or follies bringing grief if it's the card. The dream may ask where laborious effort is demanding your oversight, and whether you're being enticed toward a risky play that, like a losing hand, could deplete what you've gathered.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for spade, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work to complete, which will give you much annoyance in superintending.
If you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies which will bring you grief and misfortune.
For a gambler to dream that spades are trumps, means that unfortunate deals will deplete his winnings.