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▪ I. spading, vbl. n.1|ˈspeɪdɪŋ|
[f. spade v.1]
The action of digging, working, striking, etc., with a spade; the quantity of earth that may be lifted with a spade; a spade's depth of earth.
1647Hexham i, A spading, een spittinge ofte delvinge. 1793Fullarton View Agric. Ayr (1891) 111 To half trench an acre, with one spading and a shoveling. 1796W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. West Eng. I. 143 The price for ‘spading’ is about three halfpence, a square perch. 1801Farmer's Mag. Aug. 279 To allow of the removal of perhaps a spading of earth all along. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 161 The first spading being rich soil taken from the trench, should be buried in the centre of the dike. 1888Daily News 21 Nov. 5/7 Had the League anything to do with the spading and shooting of Colletty? 1891Malden Tillage 82 Another method of planting potatoes which is carried out very successfully is known as spading in.
attrib.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 702/2 A spading-machine for loosening and turning the soil.
▪ II. spading, vbl. n.2
see under spade v.2 |