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spading

spading is the present participle and gerund of spade.

Meaning of spade

Verb

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

  1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
  2. To move with a spade, or as with a spade.
    • ‘Le baccarat,’ intoned the croupier as he spaded the thick chips over the table to Bond.1953, Ian Fleming, “Moment of Truth”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 78

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Noun

spading (plural spadings)

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

Verb capitalized: SPADing

SPADing

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of SPAD

Forms of spading

pluralspadings

Words formed from spading

Phrases with spading

Questions about spading

What does spading mean?
Spading means the act by which soil is spaded, or turned over by digging.
What is spading the present participle and gerund of?
Spading is the present participle and gerund of spade.
What part of speech is spading?
Spading can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of spading?
The plural of spading is spadings.

Words near spading in the dictionary

  1. spadilla
  2. spadille
  3. spadillio
  4. spadillo
  5. Spadina
  6. spading
  7. spading fork
  8. spading forks
  9. spadings
  10. spadinner
  11. spadinners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spading (page history and authors); SPADing (page history and authors); spade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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