SPADING

Verb

SPADing

present participle of SPAD

Verb

spading

present participle of spade

Noun

spading (plural spadings)

The act by which soil is spaded, or turned over by digging.

Source: Wiktionary

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SPADE

Spade, n. Etym: [Cf. Spay, n.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]

2. Etym: [Cf. L. spado.]

Definition: A castrated man or beast.

Spade, n. Etym: [AS. spæd; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spaedhi, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.]

1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

2. Etym: [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.]

Definition: One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. "Let spades be trumps!" she said. Pope.

3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.

– Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

Spade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.]

Definition: To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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