Definition of "spading" []

• Present participle of spade. (verb)

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• "In the spring when all danger from frost is over, I take a so-called spading fork, and lift the vines."
• "The pupils in Form I cannot be expected to do heavy work, such as spading plots or making paths."
• "Bohemia, if there is a particularly nasty and laborious job to be done, such as spading up manure in the rain or grubbing sugar-beets out of the half-frozen earth, they wish it on the dear old grandmother."