spading
Garden soil work
Spading is digging or turning soil with a spade, the flat-bladed garden tool: Spring spading prepares the beds for planting.
The term extends to any methodical digging or investigation—spading through archives, spading up old records.
In card games, spading refers to playing spade cards or pursuing a spades-heavy strategy.
Tool for moving earth
- digUnearth by shoveling
- soilGround matter for planting
- bedsFurniture for sleeping
- cultivateGrow or develop purposefully
edging · border · turning · aerate · loam · topsoil · compost · planting
Tool for moving earth
- trowelFlat blade for spreading
- forkTined eating tool
- edgerTool for neat borders
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
mattock · dibber · cultivator · transplanter · weeder
Unearth by shoveling
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- holeAbsence in matter
- unearthExcavate or reveal hidden
- excavateRemove earth systematically
burrow · scoop · buried · foundation · ditch · channel · pit · grave
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- exertionVigorous physical effort
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- manualWritten instructions for use
muscle · digging · backbreaking · blisters · strain · fatigue · physical · workout
Pressurized steam sterilization chamber
- neuteringSurgical sterilization of animals
- ovariectomyExcision of egg-producing organs
- surgicalRelating to operations
- veterinaryRelating to animal healthcare
desexing · canine · feline · reproductive · procedure
shovel
Tool for moving earth
cultivate · edging · border · turning · aerate · loam · topsoil · compost · planting · seedbed
shovel
Tool for moving earth
hoe · mattock · dibber · cultivator · transplanter · weeder
dig
Unearth by shoveling
excavate · burrow · scoop · buried · foundation · ditch · channel · pit · grave
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
manual · muscle · digging · backbreaking · blisters · strain · fatigue · physical · workout · bending
autoclave
Pressurized steam sterilization chamber
- neuteringSurgical sterilization of animals
- ovariectomyExcision of egg-producing organs
- surgicalRelating to operations
veterinary · desexing · canine · feline · reproductive · procedure
- excavationdig, excavation, excavating, excavator, digging
- garden prepdigging, tilling, soil testing, soil amendment, fertilizing
- tillagetilling, plowing, conservation tillage, no-till, furrowing
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- gardeninggardener, gardening, flowers, seeds, soil
- earthworkdigging, excavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling
spadingcompacting
Pressing material denser
paving · tamping · sodding · hardscaping · sealing
- spading forkTined tool for earth