Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought.

When commencing to plough or spade a potato field on the high slopes near here, it is the custom of the Indians to mark it off into squares, by "furrows" about fifteen feet apart.

He planted 11,000 square acres with the larch alone; and thousands of these acres stood up edgewise against mountains and hills so steep that the planters must have spaded the holes with ropes around their waists to keep them from falling down the precipice.

You may spade up the ocean as much as you like, and harrow it afterwards, if you can,but the moon will still lead the tides, and the winds will form their surface.

[Note 5: A spade a spade.

He spaded up a neat square of ground at the side of the cottage and a long ridge near the fence that separated her yard from that of the very young couple next door.

She looked even more ludicrous in the house than she had outside, with her skirts tucked up to make spading the easier, so that there was displayed an unseemly length of thick ankle rising solidly above the old pair of men's side-boots that encased her feet.

We had tuh spade our way evah whah we went.