Spade (Verb)
Meaning
Dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- She began to carefully spade the soil around the delicate roots of the newly planted flower.
- To aerate the lawn, he used a spade to gently spade it in sections.
- In the backyard, the children learned to spade the compost pile with fallen autumn leaves.
- As a method of weed control, he opted to spade up the weeds before they spread further.
- She decided to spade the manure into the vegetable garden to create nutrient-rich soil.