spading

In the spring when all danger from frost is over, I take a so-called spading fork, and lift the vines.

The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

The pupils in Form I cannot be expected to do heavy work, such as spading plots or making paths.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

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.

Europe Revised 1910

The only question is why the US Senate would ratify a treaty while simultaneously spading it, neutering it and pulling all its teeth.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit 2010

He's so sweet; though he hates gardening, he built me a raised garden bed from scratch, spading in 1.5 metric tons of topsoil by hand!!

An Enduring Marriage 2009

Last year when I was spading my raised beds, I came upon clumps of frozen soil.

Can you dig it? Gumbo Lily 2010

Last year when I was spading my raised beds, I came upon clumps of frozen soil.

Archive 2010-04-01 Gumbo Lily 2010

The only thing I didn't complete was spading two of the four raised beds.

Archive 2010-04-01 Gumbo Lily 2010

The Lewiston (Maine) Sun-Journal has written of "spading and neutering."

Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. 2010

The only thing I didn't complete was spading two of the four raised beds.

While digging in the dirt today.... Gumbo Lily 2010