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am spading

  • present progressive
    of spade (1st person singular).
    spade
    noun
    a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.

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I am spading up my little garden, and hope to raise a few vegetables to eke out a miserable subsistence for my family.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

The weather is fine, and I am spading up my little garden.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones