Definition of "spade-shaped" [spade-shaped]

• Shaped in the form of a spade (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Here they are, clockwise from top left: Great-grandfather William Pearson, who was barely 52 years old, with his elegantly groomed, spade-shaped beard."
• "It is dense to the point of straining—but not breaking—the spade-shaped plastic spoon."
• "Later, it'll be a pack of nine needles, to darken the line; later still, a spade-shaped array of as many as 15 needles, a magnum, shading the bird's wings and underbelly."