Crossword-Solution: SPADING 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

When I can leave my office in time so that I can spend thirty or forty minutes in spading the ground, in planting seeds, in digging about the plants, I feel that I am coming into contact with something that is giving me strength for the many duties and hard places that await me out in the big world.

Whitney, one of his fellow-itinerants, “in a man spading his garden, in a clothes-line full of clothes, in a group of boys, in a lot of pigs rooting at a mill door, in a mother duck teaching her brood to swim--in everything and anything.” SPECIFIC FOR FOREIGN “RASH.” It was in the latter part of 1863 that Russia offered its friendship to the United States, and sent a strong fleet of warships, together with munitions of war, to this country to be used in any way the President might see fit.

Laborers were busy spading up the heavy, wet ground, or digging trenches, which instantly filled with water, for the whole country was afloat.

When she thought of it, "I don't so much mind the falling," said Kate to herself; "but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on." Kate sat on the back steps, the sun shone, her nearest neighbour was spading an onion bed.

Spading forks with four wide-flat blades don't work well for turning heaps, but _en extremis_ I'd prefer one to a shovel.