Now dial. [f. SPIT v.3] The action of digging, or of plowing to a spade-depth; a small trench made with a spade.

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1594.  Min. Archd. Colch. (MS.), fol. 25 b. Frauncis Fromont, the sonne, of Lytleburye, dyd work all daye vppon St. James daye at spitting of saffron ground in Walden.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Een spadinge, ofte spittinge, a Spading, or a Spitting.

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1764.  Randall, Semi-Virgilian Husb., Introd. p. lv. This action of the Sun is most considerable in Ridge work, especially in the Double Spitting, in the destruction of Weeds.

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1892.  in Eng. Dial. Dict.

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