ALL meanings of spading
spade
S s - noun spading a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel. 1
- noun spading some implement, piece, or part resembling this. 1
- noun spading a sharp projection on the bottom of a gun trail, designed to dig into the earth to restrict backward movement of the carriage during recoil. 1
- verb with object spading to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes followed by up): Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers. 1
- idioms spading call a spade a spade, to call something by its real name; be candidly explicit; speak plainly or bluntly: To call a spade a spade, he's a crook. 1
- idioms spading in spades, Informal. in the extreme; positively: He's a hypocrite, in spades. without restraint; outspokenly: I told him what I thought, in spades. 1