spading
- present participle of spade.
Example Sentences
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President John Quincy Adams broke ground on the 185-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1828, spading the first shovel of dirt just across the District line.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2017
Part of the special delight of “Ghostland” is its many informed asides, revealing Dickey’s long hours of spading up obscure facts and quotes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2016
Other settlers heard of it and began spading up crocks of wheat, kitchen utensils and tins of gasoline.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Aiken thinks that computers will take over intellectual drudgery as power-driven tools took over spading and reaping.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was easy spading, since the dirt had already been turned up once; also the manure was still in it, so I did not have to haul that again.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
